<div dir="ltr">This is fantastic.<div><br></div><div>We should do a run with the social cost of carbon, too</div><div><br></div><div>dan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 10:24 PM Julia Szinai <<a href="mailto:jszinai@berkeley.edu">jszinai@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi team,<div>I went through the current RPS policies state-by-state and updated the percentages for the SWITCH baseline input files. I made some simplifications because some states have different criteria for applying the RPS (by number of customers, utility type, load size, etc.) which don't correspond neatly with our load zone boundaries, but since it's really the carbon cap that is the binding constraint, these simplifications shouldn't matter. </div><div><br></div><div>I wrote up the policies and SWITCH implementation <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YZwKxv8_WFYBBP5WauEnpXcCGrrn31Jy-kdYEY1xo5o/edit" target="_blank">here</a>, and have attached the CSV of the data I added to the db. I also added the new carbon cap scenario to the db (WECC cap: 80% of 1990 levels by 2050, subtracting the carbon cap of CA each year, and CA cap: 0% carbon by 2045).</div><div><div><br></div><div>One of the next things on my to-do list was to update the renewable costs to include the PTC extension. Kenji, could you please send the update cost time series when you get a chance?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm also meeting with Paty early next week to work on figuring out the solar candidate capacity discrepancy.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Julia</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font style="font-size:13px" face="garamond, serif" color="#000000"><b>Julia Szinai</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font style="font-size:13px" face="garamond, serif" color="#000000">PhD Candidate | Energy & Resources Group | </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:13px">University of California, Berkeley</span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font style="font-size:13px" face="garamond, serif" color="#000000">Graduate Student Researcher | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab</font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font style="font-size:13px" face="garamond, serif" color="#000000">NSF InFEWS Fellow</font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:garamond,serif">Energy & Resources Group, MS '17</span><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font face="garamond, serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:13px">Goldman School of Public Policy, MPP '17</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font face="garamond, serif" color="#000000"><font style="font-size:13px">University of California, Berkeley</font><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font style="font-size:13px" face="garamond, serif" color="#000000"><a href="mailto:jszinai@berkeley.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jszinai@berkeley.edu</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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