[LDES-coremodel] Recurring meeting tomorrow

Fri Sep 11 13:08:00 PDT 2020

Hi all,

I wrote a quick comparison of the cost projection of four selected
technologies (natural gas, wind, solar PV, and battery storage) used in
RESOLVE and SWITCH as attached.
Please take a look and let me know what you think.

Best,
Kenji

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Kenji Shiraishi

Researcher,
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
450 Sutardja Dai Hall
Ph.D. student, Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP)
University of California, Berkeley

https://rael.berkeley.edu/people/shiraishi-kenji/
https://www.kenjishiraishi.com/

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 8:25 PM Sarah Kurtz <skurtz at ucmerced.edu> wrote:

> Perfect!  Thanks!
>
> On Sep 10, 2020, at 7:15 PM, Kenji Shiraishi <kenjis at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Sarah! Then I will compare capex in annualized form.
> Switch uses a 7% discount rate as default. Lifetime of each technology is
> - central PV: 20 yrs
> - battery: 10 yrs
> - CCGT: 20 yrs
> - wind: 30 yrs
>
> I will write up a cost comparison tonight.
>
> Best regards,
> Kenji
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 5:31 PM Sarah Kurtz <skurtz at ucmerced.edu> wrote:
>
>> Yes, Kenji! That is the correct column.
>>
>> RESOLVE doesn’t include the lifetime and discount rate in an obvious
>> place.  We can sometimes find mention of them in a write up, but then they
>> appear to change from time to time.
>>
>> What lifetime and discount rate does Switch use? I think this is part of
>> the comparison…
>>
>> Thanks for asking good questions!, so even if we find them written
>> somewhere, I wouldn’t have confidence that we know what was assumed...
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>> On Sep 10, 2020, at 5:06 PM, Kenji Shiraishi <kenjis at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sarah,
>>
>> Thank you for the email. Which column represents the Capex?
>> Is annual_fixed_cost_by_vintage annualized capex?
>> If so, to compare it with overnight cost data in SWITCH, what are
>> discount rate and lifetime of each technology?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Kenji
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 4:09 PM Sarah Kurtz <skurtz at ucmerced.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Kenji,
>>>
>>> I think you’ll find the data for the Capex (not the fuel cost) for these
>>> four in the file I sent last night.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>> On Sep 10, 2020, at 4:03 PM, Kenji Shiraishi <kenjis at berkeley.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Pedro,
>>>
>>> As we discussed today, it would be great if you could send the cost
>>> related data (including capex) of
>>> - solar PV
>>> - battery storage
>>> - natural gas
>>> - onshore wind
>>> in RESOLVE model?
>>>
>>> Also, I'd appreciate it if you could send the documents describing the
>>> definitions of those data.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kenji
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:59 AM Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez <
>>> patricia.hidalgo.g at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> The ones confirmed for today are: Pedro, Kenji and me? We can go over
>>>> the next tasks and have a 30 min meeting instead.
>>>> Thanks for the updates Julia!
>>>> cheers
>>>> Paty
>>>>
>>>> *Patr**i**cia Hidalgo-Gonzalez*
>>>> Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
>>>> University of California San Diego
>>>> patricia.hidalgo.g at berkeley.edu
>>>> (Pronouns: She/Her/Hers)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 9:53 AM Julia Szinai <jszinai at berkeley.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> This meeting also fell off my calendar and I have a scheduling
>>>>> conflict now and can't make it.
>>>>> I can provide an email update:
>>>>> I'm close to finishing the scraping and data cleaning of the existing
>>>>> WECC generation projects and retirements to add for the baseline scenario
>>>>> in the database. This will update the composition of the existing fleet of
>>>>> generation projects to 2018 from the previous 2015 vintage, and reflects an
>>>>> increase of solar and battery capacity, and retirements of coal and other
>>>>> generation. I am completing some final checks and code improvements on some
>>>>> backup database tables before pushing the data to the original database
>>>>> tables.
>>>>> -Julia
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 7:34 AM Sergio Castellanos Rodriguez <
>>>>> sergioc at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Pedro, Paty, Kenji,
>>>>>> Thanks for the reminder. I hadn't added this recurring meeting in my
>>>>>> calendar and now have a conflict with another commitment.
>>>>>> I know the storage issue with Notion is being addressed, but any
>>>>>> notes sharing from today's meeting will be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, it's settled that this will be our weekly time then? (so I can
>>>>>> add it on my calendar, or we can use a ldes-coremodel one)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Sergio
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS. From my end, the only update is that thanks to Lars/Paty I have
>>>>>> now access to db2 and postgres. I would now only require access to the WECC
>>>>>> db/schema.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 8:24 PM Daniel M. KAMMEN <kammen at berkeley.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sadly i'll miss the meeting due to a long conference tomorrow-- but
>>>>>>> will catch up up with Paty and Kenji afterward
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> dan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 7:00 PM Pedro Andres Sanchez Perez <
>>>>>>> psanchez30 at ucmerced.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is a kindly reminder for tomorrows meeting at 11:00 AM for the
>>>>>>>> update about SWITCH and RESOLVE:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here are some of the agenda for tomorrow.
>>>>>>>> - Status of SWITCH
>>>>>>>> - Status of Database
>>>>>>>> - Cost comparisson (Assign)
>>>>>>>> - Action items
>>>>>>>> - Anything else?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Link to the meeting: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/98750319783
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Pedro Andres Sanchez Perez
>>>>>>>> University of California, Merced
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> *Julia Szinai*
>>>>> PhD Candidate | Energy & Resources Group | University of California,
>>>>> Berkeley
>>>>> Graduate Student Researcher | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
>>>>> NSF InFEWS Fellow
>>>>> Energy & Resources Group, MS '17
>>>>> Goldman School of Public Policy, MPP '17
>>>>> University of California, Berkeley
>>>>> jszinai at berkeley.edu
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