[LDES-coremodel] [LDES] updates on RPS and carbon cap tasks

[Sarah Kurtz]

Thank you for the update and for doing the work, Julia!  This sounds like great progress!
I look forward to hearing the results of the detective work next week - I hope the clues turn out to be easy to spot!

Sarah

On Feb 6, 2021, at 10:24 PM, Julia Szinai <jszinai at berkeley.edu<mailto:jszinai at berkeley.edu>> wrote:

Hi team,
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.

I wrote up the policies and SWITCH implementation here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YZwKxv8_WFYBBP5WauEnpXcCGrrn31Jy-kdYEY1xo5o/edit>, 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).

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?

I'm also meeting with Paty early next week to work on figuring out the solar candidate capacity discrepancy.

Best,
Julia
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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
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