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Central water tank storage uses PTES data

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by locating the central water tank storage entry and key 140 PTES seasonal in the technology data catalogue. Compare it with catalogue key 141 Large hot water tank and confirm whether the name or key matches the intended technology; done when the naming and key agree with the selected interpretation.

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Description

bug

Current behaviour

central water tank storage uses pit storage data (key 140 PTES seasonal in DEA techn. catalogue).
I am finding this slightly confusing, since parameters are quite different between the two technologies (such as orders of magnitude difference in losses and CAPEX).

Expected behaviour

I would either expect

  • central water tank storage to be called pit thermal energy storage (or similar) or
  • the key to be 141 Large hot water tank

Is this intended?
Happy to prepare a fix otherwise.

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Python
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