Data View, Branch: Supply
and Resources, Tabs: Capital Costs, O and M Costs, Benefit. Financial data can be entered for the entire supply and resources system as a whole, in addition to individual items. Capital Costs, Operations Costs, and Benefit can be entered either as a single value for application in all years, or by using a function such as Interp or LoanPayment to calculate the value. The system variables can be used to enter costs and benefits not directly associated with an individual item in the model, to enter sunk costs, or if you choose not to disaggregate costs. Note that these values are represented as fixed costs or benefits - they do not vary with the flows that are calculated during a simulation. To enter costs that do vary with flows, data must be input at the level of the individual item.
These system-wide variables include:
Capital Costs
Operations and Management costs
Benefit
Entered on: Data View, Branch: Supply
and Resources, Tabs: Capital Costs, O and M Costs, Benefit.