Hi there,
my names Mark, I am new here. Currently, I am about to finalize my research proposal for my PhD, for which I will at some point create an energy system model. Which is why I stumbled upon calliope.
So far I still did not understand what calliope is really doing. I get that I can build my model (regions, demands for power / electricity, supply / energy production and transmission lines). But what is the part of the solver? What does it solve?
Thanks!
Hi everyone, I'm trying to update my old models to the latest functionality and I'm a little confused over how 'export' now works. Let's say I have some excess free power available in a model (e.g. some wind power that is beyond what is required to meet the demand in the model), and I want to be able to convert this spare energy into another carrier which has an external value. For the sake of an example, we have a machine which converts power into magic beans which are worth $1000/kWh of beans. I could state this as follows:
magic_bean_maker:
essentials:
name: 'Magic bean maker'
color: '#3B61E3'
parent: conversion
carrier_in: power
carrier_out: magic_beans
export_carrier: magic_beans
constraints:
energy_eff: 1.0
lifetime: 25
costs:
monetary:
interest_rate: 0.10
energy_cap: 0 # USD per kW
om_con: 0
export: -1000
However, when I put this into a model with energy_cap_equals: 1000
at a location with free power, despite there being no cost to producing beans and a clear negative cost to exporting them, no beans are produced. Is this because there is no demand for beans defined anywhere in the model, and the framework can only optimise for carriers with a demand?
Hi everyone,
I am hoping to model electric vehicles (EV) as storage . I was trying to do so by using a storage technology with storage_cap_max being input as a time-series representing whether the electric parking spot is occupied or not:
battery:
essentials:
name: 'Battery storage'
color: '#3B61E3'
parent: storage
carrier: electricity
constraints:
energy_cap_max: 22 # kW
storage_cap_max: df=EV_max_charge:EV_0
However, it does not seem to work, ignoring the max capacity.
In other words, is it possible to input storage_cap_max as a time-series?
Or is there a better way to do this?
Cheers!