How do we report cost?

[jonasVano]

Hi all,

so I think we need to discuss how we report the costs in the dashboard. The idea is the following:
system cost: Includes sum of all cost (investment cost, fixed cost, variable cost)
investment cost: All costs for expanding power plants/assets
fixed cost: Percentage of investment cost. Should be zero if investment cost are zero
variable cost: Fuel cost, CO2-cost, other variable cost depending on power plants/assets

@sonercandas : Please have a look at the naming of the parameters. Often your parameters do not match with the correct ones. Also, you have no fixed and variable cost.
@khainsch: There are no cost values for GenesyMod -> Please add them
@gnn: There are no cost values for Oemof-> Please add them

Thanks!

[jonasVano]

2016 cost comparision:

[jonasVano]

2030 cost comparison:

[jonasVano]

2050 cost comparison:

[StefanieBuchholz]

To the definition of fixed costs: In Balmorel we would have fixed costs for all installed capacity, wherefore fixed costs would appear although no investments are made (as seen in the 2016 costs figure). I am not sure if this contradicts the definition you made Jonas.

To the costs figures: For the side of Balmorel the yellow should corresponds to all the other 'blocks' and therefore figure 2030 and 2050 would be missing investment costs. However, for 2016 the yellow in the Balmorel column would then correspond to the purple on the urbs side I would guess, which seems quite reasonable from the value :)

[jonasVano]

@StefanieBuchholz Thanks for the quick response! Then we should discuss this tomorrow :)

[jonasVano]

Variable cost include:
GENESYS-2: CO2-cost, cost primary energies (fuel cost)
Urbs: CO2-cost, plant variable costs, fuel costs
Genesys-mod:
Oemof:
Balmorel: CO2-cost, O&M costs (plants), Fuel costs, Variable transmission costs

[fateme-rwth]

cost 2016

cost 2030

cost 2050