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Relative storage<br />

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0.4<br />

Tajo<br />

Ebro<br />

Duero<br />

Guadalquivir<br />

Guadiana<br />

Jucar<br />

Miño−Sil<br />

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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec<br />

Figure 21. Mean weekly relative <strong>energy</strong> storage defined as .<br />

As shown in Table 9, Irrigation allocations were also different between the<br />

aggregated and disaggregated models. Because the disaggregated model contained<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation about the <strong>energy</strong> equivalent <strong>of</strong> irrigation <strong>water</strong> demand in<br />

each catchment, inefficient allocations were curtailed. This in<strong>for</strong>mation was<br />

averaged out in the aggregated model, so most allocations were not curtailed.<br />

More specifically, allocations were curtailed <strong>for</strong> crops with irrigation marginal<br />

benefits lower than the sum <strong>of</strong> replacement cost <strong>of</strong> power lost to irrigation<br />

sinks and the opportunity costs <strong>of</strong> generating hydropower at the current (instead<br />

<strong>of</strong> at a later) stage: f+cg

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