energy-perspective-2050-switzerland

Description

This is a repository containing a scenario that implements the projections of the Energy Perspective 2050+ report for:

• electricity,
• hydrogen,
• gas,
• and liquid fuels.

It is meant to be used in premise in addition to a global IAM scenario, to provide refined projections at the country level.

This data package contains all the files necessary for premise to implement this scenario and create market-specific composition for electricity (including imports from neighboring countries), liquid and gaseous fuels (including hydrogen).

Sourced from publication

Energy perspectives 2050+
Swiss Federal Office for Energy
https://www.bfe.admin.ch/bfe/en/home/policy/energy-perspectives-2050-plus.html/

Data validation

Test

Ecoinvent database compatibility

ecoinvent 3.8 cut-off

IAM scenario compatibility

The following coupling is done between IAM and EP2050+ scenarios:

IAM scenario	EP2050+ scenario
IMAGE SSP2-Base	Business As Usual
IMAGE SSP2-RCP26	ZERO Basis (default)
IMAGE SSP2-RCP26	ZERO A
IMAGE SSP2-RCP26	ZERO B
IMAGE SSP2-RCP26	ZERO C
IMAGE SSP2-RCP19	ZERO Basis (default)
IMAGE SSP2-RCP19	ZERO A
IMAGE SSP2-RCP19	ZERO B
IMAGE SSP2-RCP19	ZERO C
REMIND SSP2-Base	Business As Usual
REMIND SSP2-PkBudg1150	ZERO Basis (default)
REMIND SSP2-PkBudg1150	ZERO A
REMIND SSP2-PkBudg1150	ZERO B
REMIND SSP2-PkBudg1150	ZERO C
REMIND SSP2-PkBudg500	ZERO Basis
REMIND SSP2-PkBudg500	ZERO A
REMIND SSP2-PkBudg500	ZERO B
REMIND SSP2-PkBudg500	ZERO C

What does this do?

This external scenario creates markets for Switzerland listed below, according to the projections from the Energy Perspectives 2050+ (yellow boundaries in map above).

Electricity

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• market for electricity, high voltage, EP2050 (CH)
• market for electricity, medium voltage, EP2050 (CH)
• market for electricity, medium voltage, EP2050 (CH)

These markets are relinked to activities that consume electricity in Switzerland.

Additionally, the Swiss markets rely to a varying extent on imports from neighboring countries (FR + DE + IT + AT), for which a market is also created (orange boundaries in map above):

• import from neighboring countries electricity, high voltage (CH)

That market itself relies on imports from the rest of Europe, which is provided by the regional IAM market for European electricity (blue boundaries in map above).

Liquid fuels

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• market for petrol, EP2050 (CH)
• market for diesel, EP2050 (CH)

This includes the production of biofuel and synthetic fuel. The latter is produced in the neighboring countries, using the corresponding markets for hydrogen and electricity.

Gaseous fuels

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• market for hydrogen, gaseous, EP2050 (CH)
• market for compressed gas, high pressure, EP2050 (CH)
• market for compressed gas, low pressure, EP2050 (CH)

For hydrogen, this includes the domestic and foreign production, via electrolysis. The latter is produced in the neighboring countries, using the corresponding markets for electricity.

For compressed gas, this includes the provision of natural gas, biomethane and synthetic gas (from neighboring countries), using the corresponding markets for electricity.

How are technologies mapped?

The tables below show how the mapping between reported technologies and LCI datasets is done. Unless specified otherwise, ecoinvent LCI datasets are used.

Electricity

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Technologies in EP2050+	LCI datasets used	Remarks
Hydro, run-of-river	electricity production, hydro, run-of-river
Hydro, alpine reservoir	electricity production, hydro, reservoir, alpine region
Nuclear, Boiling water reactor	electricity production, nuclear, boiling water reactor	The split between boiling water and pressure water is not provided. We use the current split, based on production volume.
Nuclear, Pressure water reactor	electricity production, nuclear, pressure water reactor
Conventional, Waste-to-Energy	treatment of municipal solid waste, incineration
Conventional, Other	electricity production, natural gas, combined cycle power plant	The report does not specify what "Other" is. Assumed to be natural gas.
Conventional, Coal	electricity production, hard coal
Conventional, Natural gas	electricity production, natural gas, combined cycle power plant
Renewable, Photovoltaic	electricity production, photovoltaic	Datasets from 10.13140/RG.2.2.17977.19041.
Renewable, Wind turbines, Onshore	electricity production, wind, 1-3MW turbine, onshore
Renewable, Wind turbines, Offshore	electricity production, wind, 1-3MW turbine, offshore
Renewable, Geothermal	electricity production, deep geothermal	Dataset provided by premise, based on the geothermal heat dataset of ecoinvent.
Renewable, Biomass	heat and power co-generation, wood chips, 6667 kW
Renewable, Biogas	heat and power co-generation, biogas, gas engine

Liquid fuels

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Technologies in EP2050+	LCI datasets used	Remarks
Diesel	market for diesel, low-sulfur
Biodiesel	Biodiesel, from rapeseed oil, at fuelling station	Provided by premise.
Synthetic diesel	diesel production, synthetic, from Fischer Tropsch process, hydrogen from electrolysis, energy allocation, at fuelling station, EP2050	Provided by premise.
Petrol	market for petrol, low-sulfur
Bioethanol	ethanol production from sugar beet
Synthetic petrol	gasoline production, synthetic, from methanol, hydrogen from electrolysis, CO2 from DAC, energy allocation, at fuelling station, EP2050	Provided by premise.

Gaseous fuels

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Technologies in EP2050+	LCI datasets used	Remarks
Hydrogen, domestic	hydrogen production, electrolysis, 25 bar, domestic, EP2050	Provided by premise.
Hydrogen, imported	hydrogen production, electrolysis, 25 bar, imported, EP2050	Provided by premise.
Compressed natural gas	natural gas, high pressure, at consumer	From 10.13140/RG.2.2.29142.78409.
Liquefied natural gas	market for natural gas, liquefied
Biomethane	market for biomethane, high pressure
Synthetic gas	Methane, synthetic, gaseous, 5 bar, from electrochemical methanation, at fuelling station, EP2050	Provided by premise.

Flow diagram

How to use it?

    import brightway2 as bw
    from premise import NewDatabase
    from datapackage import Package
    
    
    fp = r"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/premise-community-scenarios/energy-perspective-2050-switzerland/main/datapackage.json"
    ep2050 = Package(fp)
    
    bw.projects.set_current("your_bw_project")
    
    ndb = NewDatabase(
            scenarios = [
                {"model":"image", "pathway":"SSP2-Base", "year":2050, "external scenarios": [{"scenario": "Business As Usual", "data": ep2050}]},
                {"model":"image", "pathway":"SSP2-RCP26", "year":2030, "external scenarios": [{"scenario": "ZERO Basis", "data": ep2050}]},
            ],        
            source_db="ecoinvent 3.8 cutoff",
            source_version="3.8",
            key='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
        )
    ndb.update("external") # or ndb.update() for all sectors plus external