#Input parameters
Data collection
Data pre-processing
Model calibration
Electricity demand projections
Primary resources potentials
Existing capacity
Technology costs and characteristics
Country/region specific constraints
Fuel prices
Discretization of demand curves
Regression analyses where projections are not available
Etc…
I.e. set the starting year of the model as a past year for which actual data is available. From this starting point all that follows depends!
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