How to add an existing technology (FCEV) to a new subsector (Freight transport)?

[panday1995]

Hi, i'm trying to add FCEV into freight transport sector. Currently, I am directly modifying those CSV input files, like UCD_trn_data_CORE.csv.

for example, I add base-year energy consumption of FCEV freight transport in UCD_trn_data_CORE.csv as:

China,Freight,Truck,Truck (0-6t),FCEV,Hydrogen,energy,PJ/yr,0,,,,,,
China,Freight,Truck,Truck (6-14t),FCEV,Hydrogen,energy,PJ/yr,0,,,,,,
China,Freight,Truck,Truck (>14t),FCEV,Hydrogen,energy,PJ/yr,0,,,,,,

But even though I have added all the necessary parameters for FCEV, changed files like UCD_techs. But still those data do not apprear in the output xml files like transportation_UCD_CORE.xml

Any hints on how to do this would be very much appreciated

This is two files I have modified in order to get data like this in the freight road sector:

                        <period year="2065">
                            <loadFactor>0.47</loadFactor>
                            <minicam-non-energy-input name="non-energy">
                                <input-cost>0.2913</input-cost>
                            </minicam-non-energy-input>
                            <minicam-energy-input name="delivered gas">
                                <coefficient>1478.0904019</coefficient>
                                <market-name>China</market-name>
                            </minicam-energy-input>

UCD_trn_data_CORE.txt

UCD_techs.txt

[russellhz]

Hi @panday1995, I'm very sorry for the delay in responding to this. Do you still need help on this? If so, I can transfer it to the gcam channel

[panday1995]

Hi @panday1995, I'm very sorry for the delay in responding to this. Do you still need help on this? If so, I can transfer it to the gcam channel

Hi @russellhz, Thanks for the reply. I've solved it by directly editing a .xml file, which requires me writing additional codes to deal with those files. But I am not sure if it is the most efficient way, so I'd like it to be transferred to gcam channel and get more insights if it is possible.

Thank you!

[pkyle]

Adding a new transportation technology using gcamdata (rather than hand-editing the large XML file) requires adding rows with all necessary information to the inst/extdata/UCD_trn_data_CORE.csv file, and also to the A54.globaltranTech_*.csv files in the same folder.