Hanan Ishaque 2/3/2016

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Hi

In case where there are 19 hydel reservoirs and 50 odd thermal power plants and within each thermal power plant there are Gas turbines, steam turbines and combined cycle plants, modelling all of them to computing electricity generation would create a mess with the resulting graphs.

One way is to club together all the similar type of technologies and model only a few broader categories of technologies. But in this case how can the different availability factors and different costs could be merged. Secondly, the data for production is available for the power plants as a whole and not for separate turbines in a multi unit plant. The data for the plants apparently can not be broken down. In short how could a large number of technologies with different plant characteristics/data could be modelled as 5-10 broad categories in LEAP.

Please help
Hanan

Taylor Binnington 2/4/2016
 

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Hi Hanan,

This is a good example of a situation where you will need to determine average plant characteristics which can be used to represent categories or technologies of different power plants. In this case, you could create a single power generation technology for each category, entitled "Hydro" (for example), in which you would represent all of the capacity and historical generation from hydro plants in your region. The choice of the power generation unit size for LEAP will of course be limited by the highest-resolution data you can obtain, for each generating unit. I'll leave it to you to determine the average availability (you may use this calculation to guide your assignment of Maximum Availability), as well as each of the necessary costs.

You may also find it necessary to include more than one feedstock fuel for each of your plants. You may add these in the same way you would add other branches, under the Feedstock Fuels category underneath each power plant. This will allow you to assign Feedstock Fuel Shares to each fuel, which you can estimate based on the historical fuel mixture consumed for each plant category.

Hope this helps,

Taylor