Downscales GCAM transportation electrification loads from annual state-level loads to hourly balancing authority level loads.
Different approaches are used for each class of vehicles:
- Light Duty Vehicles (LDV): utilizes NREL's EVI-Pro-Lite API and county meteorology to generate annual hourly load profiles aggregated to balancing authority.
- Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicles (MHDV): utilizes a modified version of NREL's Heavy-Duty Electric Truck Depot Load model to generate daily hourly load profiles by balancing authority, extended to an annual period.
- Ship, train, and aviation vehicle loads are created by estimating county shares of each mode and population-weighting each county's contribution to balancing authorities. For simplicity, these are considered constant loads throughout the year. These loads are calculated as part of
combined_transportation_load.ipynb.
Check out the Jupyter notebooks within the sub-folders for instructions and code for running the LDV and MHDV simulations, then use the notebook combined_transportation_load.ipynb to aggregate the results!
The output dataset for years 2025 - 2050 in 5 year timesteps is available here.
