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Summary
This PR adds batteries to OpenDC. Batteries are an alternate power source that can be charged and discharged depending on a BatteryPolicy.
The main use case for batteries is to reduce the carbon emissions of a data center.
The battery is charged when green energy is available.
Later, the energy stored in the battery is used when no green energy is available.
Batteries fit into the FlowGraph in the following way:
Adding a battery adds four new nodes:
Currently, a single battery policy is implemented.
This policy works with a single carbon threshold.
If the carbon intensity is lower than the threshold, the battery is being charged.
Otherwise, the battery is being discharged.
The topology json schema is extended with an optional "battery" field.
Simply specify none (N/A) if not applicable.