Energy-Innovation/eps-us: eps-3.2.0-us

eps-3.2.0-us - Apr. 19, 2021 New Features Added more detail to the Industry Category subscript, increasing the number of separately broken out industries from 8 to 25 Added new policy lever to enable mandated power plant retirement schedule Improved methodology for calculating the maximum amounts of power plant capacity and vehicles that can be deployed in a given year by implementing logit functions Simplified input data requirements by removing energy suppliers from input variables and using internal calculations instead Enabled new web app graph for carbon emissions by power plant type Included new documentation, including guidance on all output graphs Data Updates UPDATE WITH NEW SCENARIO DETAILS Switched to using the AEO High Oil and Gas Supply scenario, which has historically tracked natural gas prices more closely Data in input variables based on EIA Annual Energy Outlook updated to use AEO 2021 values, which includes estimated impacts from COVID-19 Updated the first simulated year to 2020 Recategorized the freight vehicle categories to group light-duty and medium-duty vehicles together and separately report heavy-duty vehicles Updated BAU LULUCF emissions and N2O process emissions to match the latest EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory Updated to latest version of PRIMAP database (v2.1), used for process CO2 emissions in indst/BPE Removed BAU Low Carbon Fuel Standard values Updated vehicle prices based on more current sources Updated international fuel prices Other minor input data updates Bug fixes Fix equation for calculating aircraft fuel switching under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard policy Fix small bug in cash flow calculations for electricity sector variable and fixed O&M cost