Geological Storage improvements: Near term bounds 2035 and default costs now at 20$/tCO2#2366
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thank you so much for the great work!
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Purpose of this PR
This PR adjusts the geological injection assumptions in our default scenarios in the following way:
high, i.e. 20$/tCO2 (previously it wasmed15 $/tCO2), as new research clearly shows that our current estimates are too low. We will continue to update the number, once consolidated data from the systematic reviews are available.Consequences: In PkBudg750 scenarios, global 2050 geological storage comes down from 6 to 5 GtCCS/yr (in line with my paper in preparation). In NPi runs, this brings down total geological storage from 600 MtCO2/yr to 400MtCO2/yr in EUR.
Consequences PkBudg750 scenarios Carbon Prices increase from 600 to 700 $/tCO2 in 2050. More realistic near-term upscaling.
Furthermore I clean up some outdated ccs constraints and add an explanation of why we omit leakage from the geological reservoir to the documentation.
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make test) after my final commit and all tests pass (FAIL 0)remind2if and where it was neededforbiddenColumnNamesin readCheckScenarioConfig.R in case the PR leads to deprecated switchesCHANGELOG.mdcorrectly (added, changed, fixed, removed, input data/calibration)Further information (optional)
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Comparison for SSP2PkBudg750 scenarios are here:
/p/tmp/amerfort/remind_documentation/compScen-Bounds-HighCostspkBudg750-2026-06-08_11.20.52-H12.pdf
`* Comparison of results (what changes by this PR?):
See Consequences in the PR description.