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Gas turbines with carbon capture?
Describe the feature you'd like to see
I am correct that the current sector-coupled version of the model actually doesn't have any support for gas turbines (open- or combined cycle) with carbon capture? (Or oil powerplants for that matter.) It seems like an obvious technology to add, along the lines of the existing coal_cc
option.
Unless these is anything obvious I missed, I'd be happy to quickly add an option for this.
Maybe one question, configuration-wise, is how to organise all this conventional generation. It's arguably already a bit messy to have both the conventional_generation
and coal_cc
options in the sector:
config. I would consider removing the coal_cc
option and rather add some functionality to add_generation
to parse whether each carrier ends in _cc
. Then you could have (including as many technologies as possible):
conversional_generation:
coal: coal
coal_cc: coal
lignite: lignite
lignite_cc: lignite
OCGT: gas
OCGT_cc: gas
CCGT: gas
CCGT_cc: gas
oil: oil
oil_cc: oil
nuclear: uranium
For the variants with carbon capture one could use costs, efficiencies, etc. from biomass CHP capture
or cement capture
parameters; both are used in prepare_sector_network
but also they are almost identical.