Costs of cyclic operation

[FraGard]

For applications looking at the electricity system, it could be interesting to take into account the additional costs due to the cyclic operation of thermal power plants, to back up the increasing shares of variable renewables. Considering these could change the optimisation. Clearly, only an averaged and simplified representation of these costs can be given. I developed some code in my PhD thesis for this. Potentially of use?

[tniet]

Hey @FraGard - interesting, for sure. It's definitely hard to get that cycling information from OSeMOSYS, though some of the storage equations from Welsch et al. might provide some methods for that. It's definitely worth posting that as a branch to GitHub (like the alternate storage code) but maybe not as a core component of OSeMOSYS? @willu47 @abhishek0208 - Thoughts?

[HauHe]

Hi @FraGard , thanks for opening this issue and discussion.
I agree with @tniet, having these equations in the main code would be a bit of an overkill since it would make the code more complex but would still not provide the insights like UCM or similiar. However, having it in alternative version perhaps as Taco suggested in a branch would be interesting.