Tom Brown

If we're assuming LH2 here we also need to take account of liquefaction losses...

Kun Zhu is on this and will use the excellent https://github.com/oemof/demandlib for this task, which has aggregated residential and commerical profiles.

The first part of this is done: different heat profiles are generated for (residential, services) x (water, space) based on the daily profiles in data/heat_load_profile.csv, see commit https://github.com/nworbmot/pypsa-eur-sec/commit/d3a0f7e67d82c4744a5fee541a2849e0ffd5b005. @anyexingluzk: can...

Thanks Kun! Can you also send me the code to get these from demandlib? I thought they had hot water demand too?

As of commits https://github.com/nworbmot/pypsa-eur-sec/commit/019e2f3f25ffbecebe60eabfac62b3de07dc46c6 and https://github.com/nworbmot/pypsa-eur-sec/commit/8d68146e7c98865a44eb00718027560382051232 we now have separated demand and supply for residential and services space and water heating, including the BDEW-based demandlib profiles. The total objective function...

According to IEA's 2018 report [The Future of Petrochemicals](https://www.iea.org/petrochemicals/), the feedstock requirements are not very fussy, it's more about cost: "Modern chemistry and industrial processing permits most energy products to...

Actually [Lechtenböhmer et al](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2016.07.110) has 64% elec->FT based on an integrated SOEC+FT (i.e. using waste heat from FT to supply SOEC, based on [Öko-Institut Blanck et al report from 2013](https://www.oeko.de/oekodoc/1829/2013-499-de.pdf)),...

Difficult to decide: it's useful to decouple H2 production from Sabatier and FT, so that we only run H2 when electricity is cheap, but can run Sabatier and FT 24/7....

The option to insert electricity distribution network capacities and associated expansion costs were added in https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur-sec/commit/9b326ba493c27191896e57bd6fdf930b3b354b20. Dealing with the losses is another matter, since I think they're already incorporated in...

Can implement by setting p_min_pu = p_max_pu = 1.0 for Fischer-Tropsch units.