Capital Costs not aggregated

[orichters]

Dear colleagues, variables such as Tech|Electricity|Biomass|Combined Heat and Power w/o CC|Capital Costs and many more Tech|…|Capital Costs have values for each region, but are 0 in World. Is this intended or can this be fixed? Thanks!

Tagging @amerfort, @fschreyer, @fbenke-pik, @Renato-Rodrigues, @cchrisgong that last edited reportTechnology.R.

The reason is, that the following Names from the tmp are not in int2ext:

getNames(tmp)[! getNames(tmp) %in% names(int2ext)]

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``` [1] "Tech|Electricity|Biomass|Gasification Combined Cycle w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [2] "Tech|Electricity|Biomass|Gasification Combined Cycle w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [3] "Tech|Electricity|Biomass|Combined Heat and Power w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [4] "Tech|Electricity|Coal|Gasification Combined Cycle w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [5] "Tech|Electricity|Coal|Gasification Combined Cycle w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [6] "Tech|Electricity|Coal|Pulverised Coal w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [7] "Tech|Electricity|Coal|Pulverised Coal w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [8] "Tech|Electricity|Coal|Combined Heat and Power w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [9] "Tech|Electricity|Gas|Combined Cycle w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [10] "Tech|Electricity|Gas|Combined Cycle w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [11] "Tech|Electricity|Gas|Combined Heat and Power w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [12] "Tech|Electricity|Gas|Gas Turbine|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [13] "Tech|Electricity|Oil|DOT|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [14] "Tech|Electricity|Geothermal|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [15] "Tech|Electricity|Hydro|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [16] "Tech|Electricity|Nuclear|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [17] "Tech|Electricity|Solar|PV|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [18] "Tech|Electricity|Solar|CSP|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [19] "Tech|Electricity|Hydrogen|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [20] "Tech|Electricity|Storage|Battery|For PV|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [21] "Tech|Electricity|Storage|Battery|For CSP|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [22] "Tech|Gases|Biomass|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [23] "Tech|Gases|Fossil|Coal|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [24] "Tech|Hydrogen|Biomass|w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [25] "Tech|Hydrogen|Biomass|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [26] "Tech|Hydrogen|Coal|w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [27] "Tech|Hydrogen|Coal|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [28] "Tech|Hydrogen|Electricity|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [29] "Tech|Hydrogen|Gas|w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [30] "Tech|Hydrogen|Gas|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [31] "Tech|Liquids|Biomass|BioFTR|w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [32] "Tech|Liquids|Biomass|BioFTR|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [33] "Tech|Liquids|Biomass|Cellulosic|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [34] "Tech|Liquids|Biomass|Conventional Ethanol|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [35] "Tech|Liquids|Biomass|Biodiesel|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [36] "Tech|Liquids|Fossil|Coal|w/ CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [37] "Tech|Liquids|Fossil|Coal|w/o CC|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [38] "Tech|Heat|Gas|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [39] "Tech|Heat|Coal|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [40] "Tech|Heat|Electricity|Heat Pumps|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [41] "Tech|Heat|Biomass|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [42] "Tech|Liquids|Hydrogen|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [43] "Tech|Gases|Hydrogen|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [44] "Tech|Liquids|Fossil|Oil|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [45] "Tech|Electricity|Wind|Onshore|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [46] "Tech|Electricity|Storage|Battery|For Wind Onshore|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [47] "Tech|Electricity|Wind|Offshore|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" [48] "Tech|Electricity|Storage|Battery|For Wind Offshore|Capital Costs (US$2005/kW)" ```

[fbenke-pik]

Without having looked at the code in detail, I think the main challenge with aggregation of costs is coming up with an adequate approach to aggregate prices over regions, which is most likely far more sophisticated than summation or creating an average. So my guess is that it was intentionally left out because there was no way to create meaningful aggregate values for World.

[orichters]

Thanks, Falk, I agree, but in the end, it was a simply error that will be fixed in this PR. But I haven't really thought about the question whether the method is sophisticated enough :D