questions about LCOE

[yu03]

Hi, I met a problem when i used the back-end of veda. I set a electricity model of china, and i wanted to calculated LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) regarding to capital cost, fuel cost, fix O&M and variables O&M, but I do not know how to calculate the index, are there some materials that introduces the calculate process. thanks for any advice!

[yu03]

could anyone give some advice? thanks in advance

[AKanudia]

http://www.iea-etsap.org/docs/TIMES-Levelized-Cost.pdf

You can activate this TIMES reporting feature in VEDA-FE via choices on the bottom-right section of the control panel on Case manager.

[yu03]

Many thanks to you, AKanudia.

the file you offered answered my question above. that is to say, i could get levelized cost from "Var_NcapR". so, i immediatedly tried the process, however, the variable"Var_NcapR" could not shown in BE, how could find the variable? by the way, the version of BE i used is version4.8.85.

 thank you again!

[AKanudia]

you need to activate the "Levelised Costs" feature on VEDA-FE control panel (Case Manager) before making the run. only then will you find it in VBE.

[yu03]

 hi, AKanudia, thanks a lot for your help!

 i followed your instrction, and activated the "Levelised Costs" feature on VEDA-FE control panel (Case Manager), then run the model, but FE could not work well, FE showed unexpected termination of run. i cannot fix it out. 

[yu03]

good news! i fix it out. should add some sentences in runfiles in case manage. thank you very much!

[AKanudia]

please tell us what you did to make it work.

[yu03]

Sure.

step1:   before run the model, some sentences should be added in RUNFile_Tmpl shown in the case manager, the sentences is as follow,

$SET OBJ AUTO

$SET OBLONG YES

$SET MID_YEAR YES

$SET RPT_OPT NCAP.1 -1

(uploads/248/LevCost_Flags_VEDA-FE.png .  the picture uploaded shown the process.) 

step2: actviate the levelized cost button in the control panel.

step3: run the model, 

step4: run the BE, there is VAR_NcapR attribute with LEVCOST (UserConstrain) parameters.

  

[AKanudia]

But this is what VFE does when you activate the levelised cost feature. Can you post the LST file from the run that fails after you activate this feature?

[yu03]

there is no file for demenstrating the wrong process, only a prot box tell me that it did not work.

[AKanudia]

I meant the <CaseName>.LST file from GAMS_Wrk folder.

[yu03]

the file uploaded maybe useful. uploads/248/runfile_temp.txt

[AKanudia]

No

[yu03]

hi,AKanudia. i am not familiar with the GAMS, if you give more details about how to get the LST, i would find it and upload.