update Fabians comments

config.default.yaml

@@ -258,10 +258,11 @@ clustering:
     to_substations: false # network is simplified to nodes with positive or negative power injection (i.e. substations or offwind connections)
     algorithm: kmeans # choose from: [hac, kmeans]
     feature: solar+onwind-time # only for hac. choose from: [solar+onwind-time, solar+onwind-cap, solar-time, solar-cap, solar+offwind-cap] etc.
+    exclude_carriers: []
   cluster_network:
     algorithm: kmeans
     feature: solar+onwind-time
-  exclude_carriers: [] # list of carriers which will not be aggregated. If empty, all carriers will be aggregated.
+    exclude_carriers: []
   aggregation_strategies:
     generators:
       p_nom_max: sum # use "min" for more conservative assumptions

config.tutorial.yaml

@@ -188,10 +188,11 @@ clustering:
     to_substations: false # network is simplified to nodes with positive or negative power injection (i.e. substations or offwind connections)
     algorithm: kmeans # choose from: [hac, kmeans]
     feature: solar+onwind-time # only for hac. choose from: [solar+onwind-time, solar+onwind-cap, solar-time, solar-cap, solar+offwind-cap] etc.
+    exclude_carriers: []
   cluster_network:
     algorithm: kmeans
     feature: solar+onwind-time
-  exclude_carriers: [] # list of carriers which will not be aggregated. If empty, all carriers will be aggregated.
+    exclude_carriers: []
   aggregation_strategies:
     generators:
       p_nom_max: sum # use "min" for more conservative assumptions

doc/configtables/clustering.csv

@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ simplify_network,,,
 -- to_substations,bool,"{'true','false'}","Aggregates all nodes without power injection (positive or negative, i.e. demand or generation) to electrically closest ones"
 -- algorithm,str,"One of {‘kmeans’, ‘hac’, ‘modularity‘}",
 -- feature,str,"Str in the format ‘carrier1+carrier2+...+carrierN-X’, where CarrierI can be from {‘solar’, ‘onwind’, ‘offwind’, ‘ror’} and X is one of {‘cap’, ‘time’}.",
-cluster_network
+-- exclude_carriers,list,"List of Str like [ 'solar', 'onwind'] or empy list []","List of carriers which will not be aggregated. If empty, all carriers will be aggregated."
+cluster_network,,,
 -- algorithm,str,"One of {‘kmeans’, ‘hac’}",
 -- feature,str,"Str in the format ‘carrier1+carrier2+...+carrierN-X’, where CarrierI can be from {‘solar’, ‘onwind’, ‘offwind’, ‘ror’} and X is one of {‘cap’, ‘time’}.",
+-- exclude_carriers,list,"List of Str like [ 'solar', 'onwind'] or empy list []","List of carriers which will not be aggregated. If empty, all carriers will be aggregated."
 aggregation_strategies,,,
 -- generators,,,
 -- -- {key},str,"{key} can be any of the component of the generator (str). It’s value can be any that can be converted to pandas.Series using getattr(). For example one of {min, max, sum}.","Aggregates the component according to the given strategy. For example, if sum, then all values within each cluster are summed to represent the new generator."

scripts/cluster_network.py

@@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
                                    for tech in n.generators.carrier.unique()
                                    if tech in snakemake.config['renewable']])
 
-    aggregate_carriers=set(n.carriers.index)-set(snakemake.config["clustering"]["exclude_carriers"])
+    exclude_carriers = snakemake.config["clustering"]["cluster_network"].get("exclude_carriers", [])
+    aggregate_carriers = set(n.generators.carrier) - set(exclude_carriers)
     if snakemake.wildcards.clusters.endswith('m'):
         n_clusters = int(snakemake.wildcards.clusters[:-1])
         aggregate_carriers = snakemake.config["electricity"].get("conventional_carriers")

scripts/simplify_network.py

@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ def _aggregate_and_move_components(n, busmap, connection_costs_to_bus, output,
 
     _, generator_strategies = get_aggregation_strategies(aggregation_strategies)
    
-    carriers=set(n.carriers.index)-set(exclude_carriers)
+    carriers = set(n.generators.carrier) - set(exclude_carriers)
     generators, generators_pnl = aggregategenerators(
         n, busmap, carriers=carriers, custom_strategies=generator_strategies
     )
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ def simplify_links(n, costs, config, output, aggregation_strategies=dict()):
 
     logger.debug("Collecting all components using the busmap")
 
-    exclude_carriers=config["clustering"]["exclude_carriers"]
+    exclude_carriers = config["clustering"]["simplify_network"].get("exclude_carriers", [])
     _aggregate_and_move_components(n, busmap, connection_costs_to_bus, output,
                                    aggregation_strategies=aggregation_strategies, exclude_carriers=exclude_carriers)
     return n, busmap
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ def remove_stubs(n, costs, config, output, aggregation_strategies=dict()):
 
     connection_costs_to_bus = _compute_connection_costs_to_bus(n, busmap, costs, config)
 
-    exclude_carriers=config["clustering"]["exclude_carriers"]
+    exclude_carriers = config["clustering"]["simplify_network"].get("exclude_carriers", [])
     _aggregate_and_move_components(n, busmap, connection_costs_to_bus, output,
                                    aggregation_strategies=aggregation_strategies, exclude_carriers=exclude_carriers)