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Energy Policy Simulator - United States
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Reorganize fuel price input data structure for clarity #17

Closed jrissman closed 4 years ago

jrissman commented 5 years ago

Take in from input variables and sum together:

This edit is intended to clean up the "Fuels" page in Vensim and avoid errors when users supply data for the current variable fuels/BFCpUEbS "BAU fuel cost per unit energy by sector," which includes all taxes and subsidies inside it. (Meanwhile, the EPS requires the share of fuel price that is tax, and BAU subsidies, to be provided separately, and it can't distinguish BAU carbon taxes from BAU other taxes.) Taking in each of the four fuel price components separately on a per-unit-fuel basis could make the variable names and calculation flow cleaner and less confusing.

This edit should have no effect on the model outputs or calculations. It is entirely to make the model easier to understand and to adapt to new regions.

jrissman commented 4 years ago

Fixed in commit 11bc7b5 (as part of the work on issue #85).