For some assets where units have a small capacity size relative to the whole (e.g. boilers), it may be better to model the capacity as continuous rather than having discrete chunks with a capacity of unit_size. During appraisal, these assets could be partially decommissioned as with divisible assets, except that any portion of the capacity could be decommissioned, not just a multiple of a unit size.
I'm not sure what the interface for this feature should look like. We could just allow users to set unit_size in processes.csv to zero and interpret a zero value as meaning this process is partially decommissionable (if that's a word) with a continuous capacity. Alternatively, we could have a keyword in the unit_size column for these sorts of processes... but I don't know what that should be as I can't think of a good way of describing them 😄.
See discussion here: #1202 (comment)
For some assets where units have a small capacity size relative to the whole (e.g. boilers), it may be better to model the capacity as continuous rather than having discrete chunks with a capacity of
unit_size. During appraisal, these assets could be partially decommissioned as with divisible assets, except that any portion of the capacity could be decommissioned, not just a multiple of a unit size.I'm not sure what the interface for this feature should look like. We could just allow users to set
unit_sizeinprocesses.csvto zero and interpret a zero value as meaning this process is partially decommissionable (if that's a word) with a continuous capacity. Alternatively, we could have a keyword in theunit_sizecolumn for these sorts of processes... but I don't know what that should be as I can't think of a good way of describing them 😄.See discussion here: #1202 (comment)