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Eliminate redundant capacity constraints for flatline-DSD annual demand technologies

tech_annual processes whose outputs all have a flatline DSD were generating a full (s,d) capacity constraint set despite every timeslice imposing an identical bound. When all output DSDs are flat the annual constraint is both necessary and sufficient, so these processes are now excluded from capacity_constraint_indices and assigned only capacity_annual_constraint.

To support this, a new commodity_dsd set is introduced — the subset of demand commodities that have a non-trivial (non-flat) DSD entry. Processes feeding any commodity_dsd commodity retain the full timeslice constraints, since the peak-DSD timeslice is binding.

No change to results or feasibility. Eliminates millions of redundant constraints in large models, with meaningful reductions in solver pre-processing time and memory.

Also documents annual commodities (C^a) and the tech_annual demand tech optimisation in mathematical_formulation.rst.

Testing:

  • Passing all unit tests
  • Ran on CANOE Ontario and got an identical total cost to 1E-8
  • Checked difference in LP files before and after, only change was swapping of 2 million+ capacity_constraints for ~1500 capacity_annual_constraints, all for the expected technologies.

Performance:

For CANOE Ontario

Before After Change % Change
Variables 1662956 1662956 0 0%
Constraints 5297301 2901166 -2396135 -45%
LP filesize (MB) 1626 1085 -541 -33%

And trial runs. Solve time / work units seem very inconsistent

before after % change
trial 1 trial 2 trial 3 mean trial 1 trial 2 trial 3 mean (mean)
inst. Time (s) 68.49 68.58 68.44 69 43.93 44.56 44.73 44 -35%
solve time (s) 180.73 193.77 183.22 186 168.2 149.16 133.19 150 -19%
results time (s) 86.19 87.86 86.76 87 86.79 86.79 90.82 88 1%
total time (s) 335.41 350.21 338.42 341 298.92 280.51 268.74 283 -17%
work units 118.87 115.01 121.67 119 128.66 123 98.23 117 -2%
average mem. (MB) 6,921 6,898 6,897 6905 5,049 4,904 5,229 5061 -27%
peak mem. (MB) 12,090 12,083 12,098 12090 9,273 9,268 9,453 9331 -23%

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved capacity constraint handling for annual technologies and demand-specific distributions.
    • Corrected treatment of time-varying demand in model calculations.
    • Updated technology retirement eligibility for more consistent capacity modeling.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded equation documentation with annual commodity, annual technology, and annualized demand explanations.
    • Updated constraint references to match current terminology.
  • Tests

    • Updated test data to cover tracking of time-varying demand commodities.

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The model now tracks non-flatlined demand-specific distribution commodities. Capacity constraint index construction uses this set and explicit capacity-factor data. The mathematical formulation documents the updated annual constraint behavior, and test fixtures include the new model set.

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Annual Capacity Constraint Selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Demand classification and model sets
temoa/core/model.py, temoa/components/commodities.py
The model adds commodity_dsd, records non-flatlined demand commodities, initializes annual capacity indices, and uses tech_with_capacity for retirement.
Capacity constraint index selection
temoa/components/capacity.py, tests/testing_data/*_sets.json
Annual capacity indices exclude explicit capacity-factor processes and processes feeding commodity_dsd. Timeslice indices exclude processes already covered annually.
Mathematical formulation updates
docs/source/mathematical_formulation.rst
The documentation uses current constraint names and explains annual commodities, annual technologies, and annualised demand technologies.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a07cb

Explicitly supplied flatline demand distributions can still generate the full timeslice capacity-constraint set, leaving the optimization incomplete and potentially preserving substantial model-size and solver-preprocessing costs for affected inputs. Results and feasibility are not shown to change, but the classification fix or explicit owner acceptance is needed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DemandData
  participant create_demands
  participant TemoaModel
  participant CapacitySelection
  DemandData->>create_demands: provide demand-specific distributions
  create_demands->>TemoaModel: add non-flatlined commodities to commodity_dsd
  TemoaModel->>CapacitySelection: initialize capacity_annual_constraint_rptv
  CapacitySelection->>TemoaModel: provide annual and timeslice capacity indices
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In `@docs/source/mathematical_formulation.rst`:
- Around line 1291-1293: Update the documentation describing annual processes
assigned only capacity_annual_constraint to also exclude processes with explicit
capacity_factor_tech or capacity_factor_process data, matching
capacity_annual_constraint_indices construction while preserving the existing
non-demand and flatline-DSD conditions.

In `@temoa/components/capacity.py`:
- Around line 212-213: Update the capacity-factor exclusion logic around
capacity_factor_tech and capacity_factor_process to retain scoped keys: build
separate (r, t) and (r, t, v) sets, then compare each active (r, p, t, v)
process against the matching regional/technology and regional/technology/vintage
exclusions instead of a technology-only set.

In `@temoa/components/commodities.py`:
- Around line 762-763: Update the time-varying demand branch around
model.commodity_dsd.add(dem) to add dem only when its explicit DSD values differ
from model.segment_fraction. Treat missing slices as non-flatline, and leave
flatline DSDs out of commodity_dsd.
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- Around line 214-219: Update create_demands so commodity_dsd includes a demand
only when its explicitly supplied DSD differs from segment_fraction under the
model’s numeric tolerance; exclude explicit flatline DSDs so
capacity_annual_constraint_rptv can process them normally, and add a regression
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