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Technologies

Creating a LES from a scaled scenario in the Energy Transition Model couples the technologies in that scenario to the chosen network topology. ETMoses models the following technologies explicitly, you can follow the links for more detailed information. All other electrical technologies (like lighting, appliances, etc.) are aggregated in base load profiles (see Base loads for more details):

The subsections in this part of the Wiki describe the technologies in more detail.

Attributes

Each technology is described by a set of attributes which are listed below (see image below).

The default values of these technologies have been researched by Quintel and their partners and are described in the subsections of the technologies section. Not all attributes are applicable to all technologies; when changing the values of these attributes, you should only change those that are already filled out and sometimes add the cost specifications.

  • Profile: a time profile describing the load that the technology exerts on the network (see profiles for more details)
  • Output capacity [kW]
  • Input capacity (electricity) [kW]
  • Units: number of units installed of this technology; all other attributes need to be specified for one unit of this technology
  • O&M Costs per year: fixed operation & maintenance per year
  • Technical lifetime
  • Demand [kWh]: amount of energy produced or consumed annually by the technology
  • Volume [kWh]: amount of energy that can be stored in the technology
  • Initial investment: investment costs per unit of the technology
  • COP / Efficiency: coefficient of performance or efficiency of the technology as a decimal number

Double counting of depreciation costs for space heating and hot water technologies

ETMoses contains several heating technologies that provide both space heating as well as hot water. Both applications of these technologies are modelled separately, meaning that a LES in ETMoses can e.g. contain both a Households space heater combined network gas and a Households water heater combined network gas, even though in real life this is a single device. By default both 'technologies' in ETMoses will have costs assigned to them, leading to an overestimation of the depreciation costs. One way around it is to change the investment costs of one of the 'technologies' to 0. Note that the number of units for both 'technologies' is not necessarily the same. Until we resolve this double counting for the ETM and ETMoses, we recommend setting the investment costs of the least installed 'technology' to zero.

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