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    Thread: Constrain a variable capacity factor to be the same for several processes
Post: Constrain a variable capacity factor to be the sam...

Is there any method to constrain several processes so that the proportion of the total output from each technology is proportional to the relative capacity of each technology? For example, suppose ...
pauldodds TIMES 2 3,500 28-03-2021, 06:32 PM
    Thread: Storage flows in user constraints
Post: RE: Storage flows in user constraints

Many thanks, Antti, good tip - that works nicely.
pauldodds TIMES 2 4,194 13-05-2020, 01:29 PM
    Thread: Storage flows in user constraints
Post: Storage flows in user constraints

Is there any way to use storage input or output flows in user constraints? This could be useful for various reasons and feels like a gap in the model.
pauldodds TIMES 2 4,194 12-05-2020, 04:19 PM
    Thread: Report only annual flow data for ENV commodities
Post: RE: Report only annual flow data for ENV commoditi...

I've investigated further. It turns out that RPT_OPT wasn't doing anything in the case I was testing. Since I had defined emissions at the ANNUAL rather than DAYNITE level, they were aggregated when...
pauldodds TIMES 7 9,309 07-05-2020, 01:20 AM
    Thread: Report only annual flow data for ENV commodities
Post: RE: Report only annual flow data for ENV commoditi...

Hi Antti, Apologies for taking so long to follow this up - a new baby arrived between your two messages. I didn't know the process for contacting the Project Head to agree changes to the code, so ...
pauldodds TIMES 7 9,309 01-05-2020, 07:38 PM
    Thread: Report only annual flow data for ENV commodities
Post: RE: Report only annual flow data for ENV commoditi...

Thanks, Antti. I'll contact George about it. If anyone else has any suggestions or requests on this topic, then please share them here!
pauldodds TIMES 7 9,309 24-12-2019, 04:38 AM
    Thread: Report only annual flow data for ENV commodities
Post: Report only annual flow data for ENV commodities

I'm running a model with a substantial number of timeslices, which produces very large GDX files. TIMES has an option to aggregate commodity reporting to the ANNUAL level using RPT_FLOTS.  However,...
pauldodds TIMES 7 9,309 24-12-2019, 03:54 AM
    Thread: Calculation of INVCOST for technology with negative ILED earlier than the base year
Post: RE: Calculation of INVCOST for technology with neg...

Thanks for the explanation, Antti.  I can now repeat the TIMES investment cost calculation.   This is an interesting philosophical question that I haven't considered before.   Perhaps it depends o...
pauldodds TIMES 5 8,742 02-09-2019, 05:51 PM
    Thread: Linking the TIMES undiscounted cost outputs to the objective function
Post: RE: Linking the TIMES undiscounted cost outputs to...

Hi Antti,   The COST/LEVCOST labels issue was my misunderstanding – I didn’t realise the information was included only in TIME_NPV.   I think I understand the results output now.  2012 is defined ...
pauldodds TIMES 5 9,057 02-09-2019, 05:46 PM
    Thread: Linking the TIMES undiscounted cost outputs to the objective function
Post: RE: Linking the TIMES undiscounted cost outputs to...

Thanks, Antti.  You're absolutely correct - I was using the OBLONG switch but not the ANNCOST switch, and this was the problem.  I had read the section in Part 3 of the documentation on the ANNCOST sw...
pauldodds TIMES 5 9,057 14-08-2019, 03:20 AM
    Thread: Calculation of INVCOST for technology with negative ILED earlier than the base year
Post: RE: Calculation of INVCOST for technology with neg...

Thanks, Antti. Looking again, I think I must have made a mistake extracting the 2011 vintage coefficient from the objective equation - I also have the correct number from the model equations and I ...
pauldodds TIMES 5 8,742 14-08-2019, 03:09 AM
    Thread: How to use PRC_MARK
Post: RE: How to use PRC_MARK

I've just realised I didn't reply - apologies. The documentation says "The specific options that correspond to the default methods are 3 (the standard default) and 10 (alternative default method fo...
pauldodds TIMES 7 11,597 13-08-2019, 02:06 AM
    Thread: Linking the TIMES undiscounted cost outputs to the objective function
Post: Linking the TIMES undiscounted cost outputs to the...

I've been trying to recreate the objective function from the TIMES outputs.  My question is about the interpretation of the Cost_Fom outputs. The model base year is 2010 and the periods are 2010, 2...
pauldodds TIMES 5 9,057 13-08-2019, 01:37 AM
    Thread: Calculation of INVCOST for technology with negative ILED earlier than the base year
Post: Calculation of INVCOST for technology with negativ...

I have been trying to recreate the TIMES OBJINV calculation for processes with lead times. The process in question has TLIFE=40, ELIFE=30 and ILED=-5.  The model base year is 2010 and the periods a...
pauldodds TIMES 5 8,742 13-08-2019, 01:06 AM
    Thread: How to use PRC_MARK
Post: RE: How to use PRC_MARK

Many thanks, Antti. That's very helpful. I have it working now. Another problem I had was that PRC_MARK is not extrapolated by default, unlike FLO_MARK. The manual is clear about this but the VE...
pauldodds TIMES 7 11,597 27-05-2019, 11:42 PM