Initial validation investigation on a state-by-state level - PyPSA-Earth

[finozzifa]

As discussed during the OET-IS Weekly meeting on August 2nd 2024, we currently proposed a comparison between EIA and PyPSA-Earth results for both the installed capacity and electricity generation (please see this slide).

The data displayed is however geographically aggregated across the whole US.

The same comparison should be repeated for each US state.

[finozzifa]

I have started the analysis and detailed it at

state_by_state_analysis.ipynb.zip

[SermishaNarayana]

State by state comparisons have further been updated - the validation for installed capacities has been updated in the repository and can be found at analysis/notebooks/state_by_state_analysis.ipynb

[SermishaNarayana]

List of detailed tasks to be completed

• State by state analysis for installed capacity
• State by state analysis for demand
• State by state analysis for generation
• Box & whisker plot for tracking the errors - installed capacity
• Box & whisker plot for tracking the errors - demand
• Box & whisker plot for tracking the errors - generation

[finozzifa]

The installed capacity at country level agrees with the reference data. There are however minor mismatches on a state-by-state comparison.

One cause could be the fact that power plants are allocated wrongly across state borders.

To investigate it:

• regenerate the shapes/gadm_shapes.geojson without using `_simplify_polys'
• repeat the state-by-state analysis for the installed capacity