timepoints and timeseries

[YifanLi86]

MORE-DETAILS-TO-BE-POPULATED: temporal profile reduction involved, pending storage + temporal reduction tuning.

Priority: Tier 3
Targeted deadline: July
Goal: develop SWITCH input of profile reduction related inputs, including reduction definition, each time series definition, etc.

[danielolsen]

@YifanLi86 is it fair to say that there are two distinct tasks here? The first task is to somehow determine which representative hour each of our 8760 hours map to (e.g. the file attached in the original post of #46), and the second task is to use this mapping to generate the time-series data that Switch needs to run? I.e. loads.txt, timepoints.txt, timeseries.txt, variable_capacity_factors.txt.

[YifanLi86]

@YifanLi86 is it fair to say that there are two distinct tasks here? The first task is to somehow determine which representative hour each of our 8760 hours map to (e.g. the file attached in the original post of #46), and the second task is to use this mapping to generate the time-series data that Switch needs to run? I.e. loads.txt, timepoints.txt, timeseries.txt, variable_capacity_factors.txt.

pretty much, the first task is the output processing which the #46 attachment is for, and the second task is exactly what you described. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ymt6jg96gy1zut3zx34iu/Action-Items-and-Work-Assignments-05052021.paper?dl=0&rlkey=1dvvru7a7mvdbh7eb6q1ods7e

[danielolsen]

The first task is used to generate a single mapping, which is used to both create inputs as well as process outputs, right?

[YifanLi86]

The first task is used to generate a single mapping, which is used to both create inputs as well as process outputs, right?

Task 1 (urgent, this week): results-processing/visualization based on a particular mapping that user provided (slicing_recovery.csv), no need to develop process to generate the mapping during this task;
Task 2 (next step after Task 1): work on algorithm, generating the mapping and use the mapping to create additional inputs for SWITCH.

[danielolsen]

I think we are on the same page. For the purpose of preparing inputs, there are two tasks: create a mapping, and apply the mapping. For the purpose of processing outputs, we also want to use the same mapping that was used to prepare the inputs. Processing outputs is more urgent, so we will work on code that applies a mapping to outputs (starting with the hard-coded mapping that you've provided), and later we will go back and make code that creates a mapping, and code that applies a mapping for making input files. Yeah?

[YifanLi86]

I think we are on the same page. For the purpose of preparing inputs, there are two tasks: create a mapping, and apply the mapping. For the purpose of processing outputs, we also want to use the same mapping that was used to prepare the inputs. Processing outputs is more urgent, so we will work on code that applies a mapping to outputs (starting with the hard-coded mapping that you've provided), and later we will go back and make code that creates a mapping, and code that applies a mapping for making input files. Yeah?

Exactly, we are on the same page.

[danielolsen]

Applying the mapping to generate the timepoints.csv and timeseries.csv files was accomplished via #63, and specifications for generating the mapping should go into #60.