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Define methanol energy demand for industry#1068

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The industrial energy demand of methanol was methane and electricity. I suggest to use the low carbon route (already used for shipping methanol) defined by DECHEMA. This route uses hydrogenation of $CO_2$ to produce methanol, which requires hydrogen, carbon dioxide and electricity.

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  • I tested my contribution locally and it seems to work fine.
  • Code and workflow changes are sufficiently documented.
  • Changed dependencies are added to envs/environment.yaml.
  • Changes in configuration options are added in all of config.default.yaml.
  • Changes in configuration options are also documented in doc/configtables/*.csv.
  • A release note doc/release_notes.rst is added.

@fneum fneum added this to the v0.11.0 milestone May 19, 2024
@fneum fneum merged commit 0ad3489 into PyPSA:master May 20, 2024
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fneum commented May 20, 2024

Neat suggestion and nicely prepared! With intermediate industry sector ratios, there is now an exogenous transition from methane-based methanol production to the low-carbon route. An extension of this would be to directly add links for the methane route to the model and endogenize this.

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@fneum Very little detail here. I realise it would be better to have #467b8c (or something else) as the colour for industry methanol (https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur/blob/master/config/config.default.yaml#L1156) rather than the same colour as shipping (#468c8b). Do you want a PR for this ?

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