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

[Daniel M. KAMMEN]

This is fantastic.

We should do a run with the social cost of carbon, too

dan

On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 10:24 PM Julia Szinai <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
> --
> *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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