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fix BECCS capacities in 2020 to zero #1883

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@tabeado tabeado commented Nov 13, 2024

Purpose of this PR

Currently, all operating CCS projects are set as bounds for 2020 and REMIND decides freely about which capture technologies to use. globally, the split is about 50:50 for BECCS and fossil CCS, leading to 20Mt BECCS in 2020 and 27 Mt in 2025.
However, in 2020 there were 3 BECCS plants in the USA (ethanol+CC, which we don't model), which total a maximum of 1 Mt captured, and one in Japan (bioigccc with 0.18 Mt).
We thus set vm_cap for all BECCS technologies to 0 in 2020.

For policy runs, this does not make a difference. However, in NPis the head-start for BECCS makes a big difference.

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  • All automated model tests pass (FAIL 0 in the output of make test)

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Thank you so much for doing this!

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Thanks Tabea!

@tabeado tabeado merged commit 9d0ddc6 into remindmodel:develop Nov 13, 2024
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