Hello,
I'm currently running a pretty simple model on Temoa to show an energy flow for a steel mill and am having a bit of trouble interpreting the costs outputs I'm getting. I am only running one year of the model, because my analysis doesn't really depend on an extended time period at this point. As Temoa doesn't output the costs by year, I would like to model two scenarios:
1) when the total investment costs are paid in full during the first year of operation (i.e. the total costs include all of the capital costs, plus one year of variable costs based on demand and one year of fixed costs).
2) when the total investment costs are paid over a time period equal to the lifetime of the technology. Then, for the year I'm modeling, I would expect the total costs to include the first payment for the loans on each technology, plus one year of fixed costs and one year of variable costs based on demand.
I figured this could be adjusted using the LifetimeLoanTech table and for scenario 1, setting each technology to a time period of 1 year, and for scenario 2, setting each technology to a time period equal to its previously defined lifetime. However, when I change the values in the LifetimeLoanTech table, nothing changes in my outputs. When I alter the LifetimeProcess table, though, my outputs change. I'm a little unclear about how LifetimeTech, LifetimeLoanTech, and LifetimeProcess each impact the costs of this system and the system as a whole, and also how I might be able to adjust my input file so Temoa gives me the output I'm expecting.
I've attached my input SQL file. Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide, and thank you in advance for your help!
Best,
Nataly