Ensure all fixed O&M costs are included in steam_plants_ferc1 outputs

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Ensure all fixed O&M costs are included in steam_plants_ferc1 outputs #602

Closed zaneselvans closed 4 years ago

zaneselvans commented 4 years ago

Some of the fixed O&M ("capex_") columns which exist in the original FERC Form 1 f1_steam table are not currently defined appropriately in the datapackage metadata for that table. We need to add them back in and ensure that they all end up in the output tables.

This has apparently been the case since we first defined the table using the datapackage.json file.

zaneselvans commented 4 years ago

This turns out to have been confusion (and panic!) about the naming of columns... there really alrea only a few fixed O&M columns in the steam plants table -- they are renamed from "cost" columns in the original FERC DB. The "expns" columns are what we've renamed to variable O&M (OpEx). Whew!