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@amos-schledorn amos-schledorn commented Mar 28, 2025

Closes # (if applicable).

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This PR adds potential river-water and sea-water sourced heat pumps based on the implementations by @MajaHIC, @juboerms and @felix-land:

  • retrieval of HERA data for river discharge and ambient temperature
  • retrieval of Copernicus data for seawater temperatures
  • Computation of river-water heat potentials per onshore region (approximation of river water temperature from ambient temperature based on Triebs & Tsatsaronis 2022
  • Mapping of seawater temperatures to onshore regions
  • Spatial limitation of river-water and sea-water heat to district heating areas (Manz et al. 2024)
  • For both river water and sea water, DEA's excess-heat-sourced heat pumps are assumed for cost data - improvement to be tracked in separate issue
  • Added interactive plotting of heat source maps for air, river water and sea water (temperature and, where available energy)
  • Added interactive plotting of COPs
  • Optional interactive plotting of bus balances, s.t. matching string pattern (plotting:interactive_bus_balance:bus_name_pattern), defaults to None

Open TODOs

  • Introduce lower temperature threshold for sea water utilisation
  • Add Copernicus data to bundle
  • Add copyright notice for Copernicus data
  • Update data retrieval
  • Add plotting procedure for heat potentials
  • Final sanity checks

Checklist

  • I tested my contribution locally and it works as intended.
  • Code and workflow changes are sufficiently documented.
  • Changed dependencies are added to envs/environment.yaml.
  • Changes in configuration options are added in config/config.default.yaml.
  • Changes in configuration options are documented in doc/configtables/*.csv.
  • Sources of newly added data are documented in doc/data_sources.rst.
  • A release note doc/release_notes.rst is added.

To be tracked in separate issues

Testing

Note: I've made these test runs with sea-water heat pump investment costs set to those of air-sourced heat pumps (fixed now but the results have not been re-computed).

Test config

scenario:
  clusters:
  - 30 # number of clusters

clustering:
  resolution_sector: 5h

sector:
  heat_pump_sources:
      urban central:
      - air
      - sea_water
      - river_water
      - geothermal

plotting:
  heat_source_map:
    enable: true

countries: ['DE', 'DK', 'AT']

electricity:
  renewable_carriers: [solar, solar-hsat, onwind, offwind-ac, offwind-dc, offwind-float]

Results

District heat balances

Sea-water heat pumps are built extensively, river-water heat pumps only sparingly. This is expected, due to unlimited sea-water use and river-water heat pump investment costs likely being overestimated.
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Example of COP plot

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Example of heat source plot

(river water temperature)
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@amos-schledorn amos-schledorn marked this pull request as draft March 28, 2025 17:47
pre-commit-ci bot and others added 27 commits March 28, 2025 17:47
…ure dataset with source and licensing information
amos-schledorn and others added 30 commits September 12, 2025 10:42
Co-authored-by: Fabian Neumann <[email protected]>
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