PyPSA / PyPSA/powerplantmatching

Add options for automated sub-national aggregation

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Description

It would be cool to have an automated option for aggregating power plants into sub-national clusters within each country, based on standard sub-national units.

For instance, it would be really nice if the user could choose, as an option, the level of spatial aggregation, e.g.:

  • NUTS2
  • NUTS3
  • GADM

So, instead of having as an output just the aggregate capacity of each European country, one could have the aggregate capacity of each sub-national region of interest. This would facilitate a lot the functional coupling of the project to any power system model.

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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the existing country-level power-plant aggregation and its input data structures, then determine how NUTS2, NUTS3, and GADM selection should be exposed. Done means producing aggregate capacity by the selected sub-national units while preserving country-level aggregation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
data-engineering
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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