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Zhou Ji 10/19/2014
1469 Views Dear,
Yes, i can get the results of fuel demands of each sector, e.g., the demand of coal, gasoline, diesel, electricity in Household sector. But how can i specify the price of each fuel and calculate the energy expense of household? i'd like to see the enengy expense of each sector clearly, rather than to see total cost of primary energy in the part of Resource.
Could you be so kindly to show me it?
Many thanks!
Zhouji
Taylor Binnington 10/22/2014
1467 Views Hi Zhou,
LEAP is generally not suited to calculating the cost of fuels consumed at a particular demand branch. However, there is a way to work around this, which I'll describe below.
LEAP does allows you to specify Demand Costs at the level of demand-side categories and technologies. Though these costs are *not* intended to represent fuel costs, it is possible to use the Demand Cost variable for demand technologies to input the fuel cost, using the Cost per Activity Method (please review our help file on Demand Costs, here, for background: http://www.energycommunity.org/WebHelpPro/Demand/Demand_Cost_Analysis.htm). An expression entered into the demand cost variable to count fuel cost would look similar to this (I've included units in square brackets) :
Demand Cost (cost per activity method) = Final Energy Intensity[energy per unit of activity] * Fuel Price[price per unit of energy]
HOWEVER, I want to caution you that including the cost of fuel in your demand branches may double-count these costs, if you have also added them at the resource branches of your tree. To ensure that these costs are not counted twice, you can either set the Indigenous Cost and Import Cost of fuels in your Resources branches equal to zero, or alternatively, change the Cost-Benefit calculation boundary (found under Basic Params: Costing) to "Final Demands". You can read more about the options here:
http://www.energycommunity.org/WebHelpPro/Concepts/Transformation_Cost_Calculations.htm
Hope this helps - happy to answer any follow up questions as well,
Taylor
Zhou Ji 10/25/2014
1454 Views Hi Taylor,
Thanks for your method to make the Demand Costs represent the fuel cost. And I will concern about your reminding of the double-counting of cost.
But I think the calculation of sectoral fuel cost is of significance, hope the development team of LEAP can complement this function, if possible.
Thanks a again!
Zhou Ji
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