Update to version v2024.8.0

[kennedy-mindermann]

What's Changed

• Fix Bokeh Report Creation
• Update hpc documentation
• Increase the number of PV supply curve bins to 40
• Move aggregate_regions.py to be second input processing script
• Fix offshore wind supply curve (POI)
• Add Excess Load Variable
• Do not apply planned outages in the winter
• Remove old representation of interseasonal hydro storage
• Techs should not be able to upgrade until after firstyear
• Change restart_runs.py to only read .lst files when looking for the last year
• Updates to the model documentation
• Remove line breaks from model documentation
• add county-level test to the GitHub runner
• Add note about how planned and unplanned outages are applied
• Update dGen documentation
• Updated the Canada import/export description
• CSP updates from documentation hackathon
• docs: Updating documentation of model linkages
• Update discussion of alternative compliance payments
• Update storage mandates and CES documentation
• Replaced "VRE module" with "RA module" in Fig 21
• Update hydropower lifetime citation
• Update hurdle rates documentation
• Add documentation for national and sub-national CO2 emission caps
• minor wording change - PVB
• Land-based Wind Updates
• Update-VRE-lifetime-table
• Overview, Acknowledgements, Introduction, and Modeling Framework Updates
• Update documentation with economic lifetime
• Update UPV section of the documentation
• Update storage documentation section
• Capacity deployment limit based on interconnection queues
• Osw cn
• Add documentation for CO2e
• Update documentation surrounding federal policies and hydrogen
• Updates to documentation from the documentation hackathon
• Allow Storage Bin Penalty to Be Switch Controlled
• Additional Documentation Updates
• Address bugs related to upgrades

Known Issues

1. USA & USA_decarb: run and produce outputs, has an error in retail_rate_calcuations.py