Battery replacement cost included ?

[shakythesherpa]

Is the battery replacement cost which is the major recurring cost for a solar home system included? Does the input parameter for "Solar Home System Battery Maintenance Labor and Material Cost per Kilowatt-Hour per Year" supposed to include it?

[shakythesherpa]

In the reviewing the output costs.csv file in the summary folder, there is a column for solar_home_battery_replacement_lm_cost_per_year reported but this is not shown in the input parameters. How is this incorporated would be good to know.

[invisibleroads]

The maintenance cost is separate from the replacement cost. The replacement cost is the installation cost divided by the lifetime in years.

Input

solar_home_battery_installation_lm_cost
solar_home_battery_lifetime_in_years

Output

solar_home_battery_replacement_lm_cost_per_year =
    solar_home_battery_installation_lm_cost / solar_home_battery_lifetime_in_years