GODEEEP Light Duty Vehicle (LDV) Hourly Time Series Loads by County

Each file contains projected light duty vehicle (LDV) load by county for a particular U.S. state, GCAM-USA scenario, and climate pathway as specified in the file name. For the full discussion of the methodology, please see https://godeeep.pnnl.gov/pubs/EV_Load_Shapes_GODEEEP_Arxiv.pdf. For the balancing authority level timeseries, please see 10.5281/zenodo.7888568. GCAM-USA scenarios (see 10.5281/zenodo.7838871 and 10.5281/zenodo.8377778 for more details): `BAU_Climate` - a business-as-usual scenario without IRA incentives `business_as_usual_ira_ccs_climate` - a business-as-usual scenario with IRA incentives for CCS technology `NetZeroNoCCS_Climate` - a scenario targeting net-zero by 2050 without IRA incentives, disallowing CCS technology `net_zero_ira_ccs_climate` - scenario targeting net-zero by 2050 with IRA incentives for CCS technology Climate pathways (see 10.1038/s41597-023-02485-5 for more details): `rcp45cooler` - historical weather patterns projected into the future with a warming signal applied commensurate with a cooler ensemble of RCP4.5 CMIP6 models `rcp85hotter` - historical weather patterns projected into the future with a warming signal applied commensurate with a hotter ensemble of RCP4.5 CMIP6 models Fields in the data files: `time` - hourly timestamp in UTC representing the preceding hour of data `load_MWh` - load on the grid caused by the charging of LDVs during this hour within this county and balancing authority in megawatt hours `temperature_celsius` - mean temperature within this county and balancing authority in degrees Celsius `FIPS` - FIPS code for the county `balancing_authority` - the balancing authority responsible for the load reported in this row; note that some counties span multiple balancing authorities and their load is divided between those balancing authorities proportional to the population residing within that balancing authority `State` - the state abbreviation for this county This research was supported by the Grid Operations, Decarbonization, Environmental and Energy Equity Platform (GODEEEP) Investment, under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL is a multi-program national laboratory operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by Battelle Memorial Institute under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830.