Control the model time horizon regardless of the input data

[gnawin]

Description

Sometimes user want to run a model with only a few time steps for testing purposes, e.g., to check whether the inputs are given correctly or not, regardless of the actual time steps in the input data.

Currently we do not have a parameter to do that easily, the workarounds are:

• manually change the profile data to only contain the time steps for the model, e.g., instead of 8760 hours of profiles, give only 10 hours.
• use the explicit/math mode in the partition table to only include the wanted time steps, so the profiles are truncated accordingly.

Note that in TEM, we have three layers of time: year, timeframe, and rep periods. The workarounds work the best only for 1 year, 1 timeframe, so you only truncate the rep periods. If you also want to truncate year and timeframes, you would need to manually change more data OR go to TulipaClustering.jl.

Proposal:

• Give a parameter to truncate the rep period profiles, for 1 year and 1 timeframe.
• Add in the documentation, that if you want to have more control, you should go to TulipaClustering.jl and generate the profiles accordingly.

@datejada @clizbe @nope82 @IsaiMaganTNO

Validation and testing

N/A

Motivation

This question comes from the users.

Target audience

Users

Can you help?

Sure