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DAC in Sector Studies
Feature Request
As described in PR #622, running DAC in sector studies at national level is not supported right now.
Suggested Solution
I believe the best way to address this is probably remove the individual emission tracking per sector, and just post-process that information. I think what this would require is:
- Create central atmosphere emission stores (similar (or maybe the same?) to what is done in the power sector)
- Remove the sector specific stores (we may want to think about how to treat the methane store)
- Change the link
efficiency2values so they direct to the atmosphere store - Update the DAC sector links so they no longer pull from sector specific stores
- Ensure that carbon can be pulled from earlier timesteps (see this comment)
- Update the sector constraints so they no longer relate to sector specific stores. Note, this will remove the functionality of implementing emission targets at a per sector level. This can be amended by a future issue ticket tho.
- Create a utility function that calculates emissions per sector based on activity of the components in that sector
- Update the emission plots so that the emission values come from the utility function, rather than the store energy levels.
Additional Info
We should probably check how PyPSA-Eur does this first, tho!