truggles / Inter-annual_Variability_Residual_Load

Collecting code used in inter-annual variability of residual load paper

Inter-annual_Variability_Residual_Load

Collecting code used in paper on inter-annual variability of peak residual load:

Please cite:

Tyler H. Ruggles and Ken Caldeira, Wind and solar generation may reduce the inter-annual variability of peak residual load in certain electricity systems, Applied Energy, (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117773.

Structure

• The main analysis workflow is contained in main_analysis with a detailed README file for reconstructing the exact figures in the main paper
• Documentation for downloading, cleaning, and detrending the historical load data in load_data
• Defined shapefiles used for selecting the wind, solar, and temperature data from MERRA-2 found in shape_files
• Resuling load, wind, solar, and temperature data in data
• Documentation for analyzing results of the sensitivity analysis found in sensitivity_analysis
• Documentation for the degree day and peak load temperature analysis found in temperature_analysis
• Documentation of the demand response data and calculations found in demand_response
• Documentation of the wind and solar capacity factor algorithms in other_figs

Running the main analysis

• See main_analysis/README.md

Results files

• The data values used in the main analysis figures can be found in the csv files in main_analysis/fig_data/
• Larger results files containing additional data are located in Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/5495664