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Handle dual fuel measures #407

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jtlangevin opened this issue Aug 26, 2024 · 1 comment
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Handle dual fuel measures #407

jtlangevin opened this issue Aug 26, 2024 · 1 comment
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jtlangevin commented Aug 26, 2024

Consumers may switch to a heat pump but keep original fuel as backup; the effects of partial remaining fossil fuel use on energy/emissions/costs should be accounted for in the Scout measure preparation module, ecm_prep.

Proposed approach:

  • Create measures with a “backup_fuel_fraction” parameter that points to supplemental data needed to determine the fraction of remaining original fuel use for the measure.
  • Develop a CSV for each measure in (a) that specifies remaining backup fuel use fraction (as a % of original total fuel use) by fuel and each region and building type the measure applies to.
  • Loop through all applicable baseline fuel segments for the measure and run the following adjustments to efficient case data (in partition_microsegment function) for each:
    • Increase in original fuel energy use = original fuel energy use * relevant fraction from (b)
    • Decrease in switched fuel energy use = switched fuel energy use * (1 - fraction from (b))
    • Adjusted efficient energy data = original efficient energy + c.i - c.ii
  • Repeat step (c) with additional multiplication by emissions factors and energy costs to get adjusted measure efficient emissions and energy cost results
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Initially added in commit 68b7de6, with associated measure updates in commit 0723550; needs unit testing.

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