I am trying to model the electricity sector in Lebanon. The issue I am facing is that LEAP chooses to meet demand requirements using imports, although the available processes have enough capacity and availability to meet energy demand on their own.

For instance, in the business as usual scenario, all my processes are set to merit order dispatch, the planning reserve margin is set to 0% (Lebanon does not have enough electricity generation to meet demand, so people rely on private generators), and the capacity of private generators is endogenously calculated. The availability of private generators is set at 100%. However, LEAP chooses to produce a certain amount of energy from private generators and meets the requirements from imports.

If you look at the snapshot below, capacity of private generation is 1207 MW in 2019.

During that year, LEAP produced 8.24 TWh from private generators as seen below.

However, since the availability is set to 100%, the process could have produced more than 10 TWh. LEAP did not do that, rather it imported whatever energy requirements were not met.

How can I fix that?

Could you send me your LEAP data set so I can take a look and give you some feedback? I wont share it with anyone and will delete the file once I have done this.

Please send to leap@sei.org attaching it as a .leap file. Use the Backup function on the main toolbar to save a .leap file.

Thanks!

Charlie

Thanks again,

Danny.