A quick question of cost_salv and price

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Hi,

I noticed that the output only provides a total value for cost_salv, but it’s unclear how this amount is distributed across specific investment years. For example, if a technology has capacity expansions in 2045 and 2050, with a lifetime of 30 years and a total salvage cost of 10, how can I determine the portion of cost_salv attributed to the 2045 investment? [is there any better ways than manually further calculations?]

If I want to know the exact cost of that specific year (e.g., 2045), I should sum and discount the cost components (INV, O&M) and then subtract the attributed cost_salv, right?

Besides, which attribute should I use to see the electricity price over timeslices?

Thank you in advance for the clarification.


Best regards,
Xiao

[Antti-L]

> the output only provides a total value for cost_salv, but it’s unclear how this amount is distributed across specific investment years.

I guess this might be a VEDA Online issue, or perhaps you are not using TIMES, but OseMosys?
The TIMES reporting does include Cost_Salv(r,v,p) by vintage (≈investment year), just like Cost_Inv(r,v,t,p) is by vintage, Cost_FOM(r,v,t,p) is by vintage, etc., and also the reported Lumpinv data is by vintage as well. So, I think you would have all the capacity-specific costs by vintage, and could thus easily derive the total capacity-related costs by vintage, with or without salvage credit.