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Fix solar slope and add wind correction factor for wake effects #350

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@pz-max pz-max commented May 28, 2022

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Solar potential were out of order. The current solar profiles are generated for north Europe (slope facing southwards).
The proposed config adjustments are a bug fix that gives more realistic solar potentials (slope=0). Future work should generate locational dependent slope factors.

Additionally, a correction factor was applied as in PyPSA-Eur to represent wake effects.

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  • I tested my contribution locally and it seems to work fine.
  • Code and workflow changes are sufficiently documented.
  • Changes in configuration options are added in all of config.default.yaml, config.tutorial.yaml, and test/config.test1.yaml.
  • A note for the release notes doc/release_notes.rst is amended in the format of previous release notes, including reference to the requested PR.

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pz-max commented May 28, 2022

@davide-f solar potential was quite underestimated. Merging this after the check.

@pz-max pz-max merged commit aa23e05 into pypsa-meets-earth:main May 28, 2022
@pz-max pz-max deleted the vre-config-fix branch May 28, 2022 17:07
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Any particular reason to use fixed slope=0 and not latitude_optimal for pv?

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pz-max commented May 30, 2022

Awesome! It was just a quick fix. Didn't know it exist. Is this something which could change in PyPSA-EUR too?

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You'd have to ask @coroa , it was initially latitude_optimal and later changed to fixed slope and orientation: PyPSA/pypsa-eur@b4dcbbb back in 2018. Maybe he remembers why it was changed in PyPSA-EUR . And maybe the same reason also applies here for Africa?

pz-max added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2022
Fix solar slope and add wind correction factor for wake effects
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