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Change order of stacked bar chart #7711

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DutchPower24 opened this issue Jan 9, 2025 · 2 comments
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Change order of stacked bar chart #7711

DutchPower24 opened this issue Jan 9, 2025 · 2 comments

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DutchPower24 commented Jan 9, 2025

Is it maybe an idea to move the more baseload energy providers like nuclear, coal and gas to the bottom and then the flexible/volatile sources on top?

So basically move gas downward, and sun and wind to the top.

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Also mentioned here
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Currently it's ordered as following: Baseload, Variable Uncontrolled (Solar + Wind), Storage, Variable Controlled, Exchanges (in Consumption mode).

Simplified we can say it's baseload sources, uncontrolled sources and then balancing sources.

The main difference here is that gas is/was not considered as baseload source but rather as balancing/peak production source.

Maybe this has shifted some but is still the case for a lot of regions.

Here are some examples:
Netherlands:
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You can see that it's gas that is being reduced when solar picks up while coal is almost a flat line.

Queensland Australia:
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Here gas is only being used between the solar peaks. And while coal is bing reduced it's simply because of the magnitude of solar.

Texas (ERCOT):
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Here we can also see that it's mainly gas that is being reduced and not "baseload" such as coal and nuclear.

So I'd say we are already implementing this to an extent. Maybe it can be improved but I opt for the best strategy that will highlight the zones that have decarbonized the most or an in progress of doing so.

Germany is a good example of the other way though as they seem to be replacing baseload coal with baseload gas, which is good short term for lowering their emissions but they still rely on fossil fuels to a very large extent, same with Poland.

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