Open tsmbland opened 1 month ago
I have a related comment regarding the "Fuel" column in the Technodata.csv.
If the "Fuel" column in Technodata.csv is no longer used, a potential improvement could be allowing a technology or process to use multiple fuels (for example, a boiler can run on either solar or gas). I guess this function is already exist, but since the Technodata.csv currently only allows one input in the "Fuel" column per process, it looks like it limits each technology to a single fuel type.
From what I understand, we can define more than one input fuel for a technology/process in the CommIn.csv.
/Jinxi
The purpose of these fields (in theory) is so that the
fueltype
andsame_enduse
search spaces can filter technologies that have the same fuel/enduse.However, we already know what the fuel and enduse of all the technologies are based on the
CommIn
andCommOut
files, so these columns in theTechnodata
file shouldn't be necessary.In fact,
same_enduse
doesn't actually use theEndUse
field (despite what the documentation says), and determines end-use based on outputs defined in the CommOut file (along with theis_enduse
filter which excludes environmental commodities)I suggest we do a similar thing for
fueltype
, and then we can drop both of these fields from theTechnodata
file