STEP and batteries using 2021 averages

[GlennAndre29]

When did this happen?

Constant

What zones are affected?

Zones with STEP and/or batteries

What is the problem?

The data used for the carbon intensity of STEPs and batteries is detailed as average 2021. Three matters are raised with that:

• I do not find the same values for the 2021 data (ex: Portugal is noted as 155 for average 2021 which is not neither production nor consumption average for 2021)
• 2021 seems quite far from latest data. For countries with fast transitions like Portugal, Finland or Netherlands it can make a huge difference
• These averages seem quite inaccurate as the storage is mostly done in period of high production of low carbon electricity

Maybe it was already answered but I am new to this github and quite ignorant about how to research informations there.

Many thanks

[GlennAndre29]

And I add one issue : are they double counted at production time and a second time when it is given back from storage?

[VIKTORVAV99]

@florianscheidl you worked a bit on updating all of these, what is the status of that and is there anything I can do to help?

[GlennAndre29]

@VIKTORVAV99 thanks for the consideration of the matter. But actually I think that the major problem is that emissions of the production are counted twice (one at the real electricity production time and two at the giving back to the network with the use of this average) while emissions of the batteries construction is not taken into account.

Indeed, we should not consider average CO2 intensity averages but CO2 intensity of batteries with their CO2 cost against their number of cycles during their lifespan (giving the Wh distributed to the network).

Same for STEPs

[florianscheidl]

@florianscheidl you worked a bit on updating all of these, what is the status of that and is there anything I can do to help?

Happy so see that you are picking this up. We did reprocessing for specific regions back when we updated the capacities. Since then, I haven't been working on this.
It is one of the items that we will discuss when we look into processes to keep our methodology up to date.
For now our focus is on other projects. I think for now we can approach this during slack weeks. @VIKTORVAV99 , what do you think?

[VIKTORVAV99]

@florianscheidl you worked a bit on updating all of these, what is the status of that and is there anything I can do to help?

Happy so see that you are picking this up. We did reprocessing for specific regions back when we updated the capacities. Since then, I haven't been working on this.

It is one of the items that we will discuss when we look into processes to keep our methodology up to date.

For now our focus is on other projects. I think for now we can approach this during slack weeks. @VIKTORVAV99 , what do you think?

I think that makes sense, I have a few projects going on myself that I need to finish up before starting on this but slack week should be perfect for this.

[GlennAndre29]

Thank you for considering it but I am still worried by this double count of CO2 emissions for the production both at the production and when it leaves storage.