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DEickholt

@DEickholt

Hi everyone,

I am currently looking at different open-source energy modelling tools with the goal of designing minigrids (small stand-alone energy grids without a connection to the main grid). A lot of tools should theoretically work for this purpose, but do not support it explicitly. Therefore, the selection is difficult.

The long-term goal is to implement e-mobility and vehicle-to-grid options as well. This will be used to analyse possible synergies between new minigrids and e-mobility in rural African villages.

Since you are all experienced with Calliope already i would really appreciate a short opinion whether you think it is the right tool for this job. If you have any other suggestions I would appreciate those as well.

Thank you very much and best regards.

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AdamEaCSIII

@AdamEaCSIII

Hi everyone,
I am trying to prevent a conversion tech from operating on certain hours of the year using both the 'energy_prod' and 'energy_con' constraints and a time series csv file. Running it doesn't show any errors, but it does not seem to be constrained properly as it is operating at the times it should be disabled. I tried using 0 and 1 as well as TRUE and FALSE in the csv, but both don't seem to constrain it.
If anyone has any pointers of what may be going on, I'd really appreciate it.

The conversion tech looks something like this:

e_x_conversion:
essentials:
name: e-x conversion
color: '#65AFC5'
parent: conversion
carrier_in: electricity
carrier_out: x
constraints:
energy_cap_max: 22
energy_prod: file=Y:(path).csv:column
energy_con: file=Y:(path).csv:column

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Francesco Lombardi

@FLomb

Hi everyone,
I am currently looking at different open-source energy modelling tools with the goal of designing minigrids (small stand-alone energy grids without a connection to the main grid). A lot of tools should theoretically work for this purpose, but do not support it explicitly. Therefore, the selection is difficult.
The long-term goal is to implement e-mobility and vehicle-to-grid options as well. This will be used to analyse possible synergies between new minigrids and e-mobility in rural African villages.
Since you are all experienced with Calliope already i would really appreciate a short opinion whether you think it is the right tool for this job. If you have any other suggestions I would appreciate those as well.
Thank you very much and best regards.

Hi @DEickholt , yes I think Calliope is particularly suited for this kind of job, more so than other options, because it was conceived originally precisely to be easily adaptable to multiple scales, including the local scale. On the Calliope model gallery you can see some examples of district-scale systems, and some more are available in the list of publications. I have myself used it in the past to model a district-scale energy system, for which Calliope allowed me to have a lot more versatility than other commercial software I used in the past

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Francesco Lombardi

@FLomb

Hi everyone,
I am trying to prevent a conversion tech from operating on certain hours of the year using both the 'energy_prod' and 'energy_con' constraints and a time series csv file. Running it doesn't show any errors, but it does not seem to be constrained properly as it is operating at the times it should be disabled. I tried using 0 and 1 as well as TRUE and FALSE in the csv, but both don't seem to constrain it.
If anyone has any pointers of what may be going on, I'd really appreciate it.
The conversion tech looks something like this:
e_x_conversion:
essentials:
name: e-x conversion
color: '#65AFC5'
parent: conversion
carrier_in: electricity
carrier_out: x
constraints:
energy_cap_max: 22
energy_prod: file=Y:(path).csv:column
energy_con: file=Y:(path).csv:column

hi, never tried myself to constrain simultaneously consumption and production, so not sure, I should try; but what are you exactly trying to model? that could help figuring out if there are other/better options anyway

Rodrigo Amaro e Silva

@ramaroesilva

lightly off-topic, open position for MSc graduates on exploring calliope for a EU project (@FLomb and @luzgui involved)
http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=134543

2 replies

FAYDI

@FAYDI

Hi,

I am a new user of calliope and I would like to know, if possible, which transmission I have to choose for special gas (oxygen or hydrogen) from a conversion_plus tech to storage tech.

Many thanks !!

Francesco Lombardi

@FLomb

Hi @FAYDI, I would say there is only one archetype of transmission technology, which is then free for you to customise at your need. For instance, you can impose transmission capacity limits, transmission costs and/or a transmission efficiency which are tailored to your specific type of transmission (i.e. a pipeline for specific types of gases). Does this answer your question?

FAYDI

@FAYDI

Hi @FLomb, thank you for your answer! So, is it just like heat_pipes but customized for a specific gas distribution ?

Rodrigo Amaro e Silva

@ramaroesilva

Exactly @FAYDI. For me, the beauty of calliope is its extreme flexibility

While the customization implies some work for the modeller, the freedom entailed is great

FAYDI

@FAYDI

Thanks!! Yes, indeed, this flexibility allows to do a very interessting combination of technologies. It's really great

FAYDI

@FAYDI

Hi, I have another question if somebody could help. Is it possible to force a technology to supply or convert the carrier in specific time (for example during the night) ?

n-stolz

@n-stolz

Hi everyone,
I am trying to model the European energy-system using the euro-calliope model. In my project I will run a model in planning mode, followed by a run in "operate mode" with the capacity obtained by the planning run.
Unfortunately I am running into a pretty annoying issue when trying to run the model in operation mode. The model does not run, as it is unfeasible. Saving the model as a .lp file, I discovered that the issue comes from this biofuel constraint in Italy:

c_e_balance_supply_plus_constraint(ITAbiofuel_2016_01_01_00_0000):
+1 carrier_prod(ITAbiofuelelectricity_2016_01_01_00_00_00)
-1 resource_con(ITAbiofuel_2016_01_01_00_00_00)
+1 storage(ITA__biofuel_2016_01_01_00_00_00)
= 2058

I don't know why 2058 is the constraint here, it is zero for all other timesteps of this technology and all other loc_techs.

If I remove biofuel from Italy, the constraint of biofuel in Slovenia (which was 0 when biofuel was allowed in Italy) changes and makes the model unfeasible again. This time the constraint making the model unfeasible is:

c_e_balance_supply_plus_constraint(SVNbiofuel_2016_01_02_12_0000):
+1 carrier_prod(SVNbiofuelelectricity_2016_01_02_12_00_00)
-1 resource_con(SVNbiofuel_2016_01_02_12_00_00)
+1 storage(SVN__biofuel_2016_01_02_12_00_00)
= 2932.8656850801376

After removing biofuel from Slovenia, however, the model runs and produces an output.

My first thought was that there seems to be an issue with the biofuel technology class or the way I link the constraints to the planning part of the model. But there is still biofuel capacity in other countries which is used in the operation mode and all links between the two models are automized, so the way constraints are implemented must be exactly the same for Italy and Slovenia compared to other locations.

I hope I described my issue in an comprehensible way, if not please let me know.

Is this issue familiar to anyone? Does anyone know were I could change anything to not run into this problem?
I am very confused, because there are 34 locations and around 14 technologies that work and the issue only arises at these two instances.

I would be incredibly grateful if anyone could give me a hint what is going wrong!

Many thanks!!

Francesco Lombardi

@FLomb

Hi, I have another question if somebody could help. Is it possible to force a technology to supply or convert the carrier in specific time (for example during the night) ?

@FAYDI yes, that's possible, particularly for supply techs. You could, for instance, set the resource of the technology as a time series (rather than 'inf', if you have a dispatchable supply plant). The time series should then have: resource = a very high value, or inf, during daylight hours; resource = 0 otherwise

Rodrigo Amaro e Silva

@ramaroesilva

@n-stolz, can't you get the outputs you're looking for from the first "planning" run?personally, I have no experience with the "operation" mode.

n-stolz

@n-stolz

@ramaroesilva I need the production time series and unmet demand time series for every location. Can I get that from the planning run?

Rodrigo Amaro e Silva

@ramaroesilva

yes, I'm sure of this. take a look at the documentation on how to store calliope outputs as .csv or .nc (netcdf)

n-stolz

@n-stolz

@ramaroesilva Thank you very much, I found what I was looking for in the planning model!

yannick van til

@Yannickvtil

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Also submitted as an issue on the github:
Incorrect storage behavior when using operate mode,
When I use operate mode with a prespecified tech/loc capacity configuration, the storage "creates" capacity whenever it needs it.
This seems odd to me since unmet demand is turned ON, meaning that whenever it can't meet demand, it should just create unmet demand instead of an infeasible amount of new storage capacity. (only happens in operate mode),

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Peter

@peterklein11_twitter

Hi All. New user here. I have a MIP problem for a mix of solar PV, wind and storage, as I can only install a fixed number of 5 wind units. I am currently using CBC as the solver, but the solution is getting a bit slow and I wanted to try adjusting the mipgap. Adjusting mipgap=0.05 under the solver options didn't seem to change the solution time at all. It seems CBC expects ratioGap or allowableGap as the solver option? How would I implement this in the YAML model file? Providing ratioGap=0.05 didn't seem to do anything either

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FAYDI

@FAYDI

Hi everyone, I would like to know if it is possible to introduce a number of cycle of technology instead of lifetime. My second question is about the degradation and the cost of replacement. Is it possible to take into account these parameters in the lcoe ? Thank you so much for your answers.

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Francesco Lombardi

@FLomb

hi @FAYDI. I would say that no, atm having an explicit number of cycles as a substitute of lifetime is not possible. There are ways to take into account battery (I guess you have in mind a battery here?) cycles in an approximate way in an LP model. For an example check this out, although it's not Calliope-based

the same reference provides some insights about options for degradation/cost of replacement. Generally speaking, all of this is a bit hard to take into account in LP form; slightly better in MILP form, possibly

FAYDI

@FAYDI

Ok, I see, many thanks @FLomb

MatthieuJacobs

@MatthieuJacobs

Hi, I have a question regarding the definition of resources for which potentials are typically estimated on a yearly basis, such as biomass for example. Is there a way to set an annual resource potential in Calliope, or should I find a way to set a custom constraint linking the availability in consecutive periods? At the moment the annual resource is considered to be hourly, which obviously doesn't make sense. I also don't really want to just divide the potential by the number of timesteps as this reduces the potential in combination with intermittent resources. Has anyone faced this issue?

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jgwagenfeld

@jgwagenfeld

Maybe you can use the group constraint carrier_prod_max for the set of techs/locations you wanne set the upper limit?

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https://calliope.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/advanced_constraints.html#group-constraints

MatthieuJacobs

@MatthieuJacobs

@jgwagenfeld this seems to work! Thanks

Hardy Hosseini

@hardy.hosseini_gitlab

Hi All, I am a new user of Calliope. Just wondering is there any training course for this software?

Francesco Lombardi

@FLomb

Hi @hardy.hosseini_gitlab , the documentation includes some tutorials (https://calliope.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/tutorials.html), have you already seen those?

2 replies

MartKret

@MartKret

Hi, I am currently trying to implement various things in Calliope. I was wondering if anyone has ever implemented demand side management in Calliope? My attempts to implement DSM as a storage were not so successful, because various parameters, like storage duration or number of possible storage operations are missing. Does anyone of you have experience with this and can possibly help me? Thanks.

Francesco Lombardi

@FLomb

The maximum "storage time" was removed since Calliope 0.6.0, but was there before. Not sure why it was removed, but I guess it was not particularly meaningful for normal storage techs; you could maybe bring it back to life for DSM? as far as the "number of possible storage operations", what do you mean? how many "times per day" can the storage be charged/discharged? If so, I think there's no such option at the moment; you could implement it, but it would turn the problem into a MILP one - which is ok, but harder to solve

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Lingkangjin

@Lingkangjin

Lingkangjin

@Lingkangjin

Hello everyone, I am new to Calliope and currently I am doing some cases by my own (running with Calliope 0.6.7 in plan mode); I have a doubt about the conversion technologies, moreover regarding the "energy_cap_max" constraint, I have seen that if this constraint is set, as results the size of the technology will be equal the maximum value, however, if this constraint is removed, the size of the technology will be calculated by Calliope and can be lower (or higher) than the maximum size. So I wonder how can I set the upper limit without defining the tech size.

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Lingkangjin

@Lingkangjin

Hi, I was wondering, in order to compare different scenarios, if somehow I can get the objective function value of different scenarios. Otherwise, what is the best practice to compare different scenarios. thanks in advance

2 replies

Rodrigo Amaro e Silva

@ramaroesilva

Hi everyone.
Find here a presentation I prepared to lightly introduce calliope to some MSc students at the university where I'm currently working:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355942679_Light_introduction_to_calliope_Python_package

Lingkangjin

@Lingkangjin

Hello everyone, I would like to model Air source Heat pump in my study and I've already seen the example in https://calliope.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/advanced_constraints.html?highlight=carrier_ratios.carrier_out_2#combined-cooling-heat-and-power-cchp, however in the modelled example, If I understood correctly, the heat and the cooling could be generated both in the same time-step, is it any way to model that in each time step, ONLY one of two output can be generated, but never both of them?

2 replies

Lingkangjin

@Lingkangjin

Is it possible to define separated consumption costs for "conversion_plus" where there are 2 input carriers? because I am modelling Cogeneration tech that could take in the natural gas and also the hydrogen-NG blend, where I would like to attribute emission cost based on which input carrier is been used. So, is it possible to specify this in "om_con" somehow?

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Lingkangjin

@Lingkangjin

I was also wondering if it is possible, for energy storage techs, to have as input maximum cycles, instead of a lifetime in years; Because most energy storage degradation is based on how many full charging/discharging cycles have been done, not how many years are been used. ( I get this is should a very complex modeling issue, just wondering if is been considered somehow)

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Thijs Eddes

@ChiefThijs_gitlab

Hi all, Im new to Calliope . ATM im writing my MSc thesis about bottom-up energy models in global supply chains. The question that I have is if Calliope is suitable to model the entire energy consumption of a final product by modelling its second - third-.... - last tier supplier in one model? Thanks in advance

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FAYDI

@FAYDI

Hi everyone, I have an issue with the dispatch of power. The software took a carrier from a technology to another and disrespect the link between regions and the constraint one_way. Could someone tell me how to efficiently stop the communication between two technologies ? Thank you so much!!

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FAYDI

@FAYDI

Hi, This an example of the dispatch. The fuel cell produce an excessive power regarding the demand. Is there any way to force the fuel cell to deliver only the need of power demand ? The second issue, is that fuel cell takes energy from the electrolyser but the two technologies are not linked together.

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FAYDI

@FAYDI

FAYDI

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