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Closes #391.

What this adds

This pull request adds an optional input, hurdle_rate, so that a model can represent buyers who avoid equipment with a high upfront price without counting that reluctance as a cost. The issue explains the need and works through an example.

How it works

The new hurdle_rate table has the same columns as loan_rate (region, technology, vintage, rate and notes). It is loaded, filtered and checked in the same way, and rates must be zero or more. If the table or a row is missing, the hurdle is zero. Unlike loan_rate, it has no global default.

The objective now uses a separate investment payment at loan_rate + hurdle_rate. This is the same as multiplying each investment term by CRF(r+h, L) / CRF(r, L). It applies to ordinary investments, to investments with survival curves, and to the economies-of-scale investment curves. Processes that share one economies-of-scale cost curve must already have the same lifetimes and loan rate; they must now also have the same hurdle rate. The existing treatment of loan life, equipment life, the model horizon and discounting does not change.

The model keeps total_cost as its objective, which is now the choice score. A new expression, real_cost, holds the same costs with investment at the real loan rate. Extensions that add costs to the objective, such as unit-commitment startup costs and the economies-of-scale costs, now add them to both expressions through one helper, add_period_cost.

How costs are reported

The cost table (output_cost) is unchanged: investment costs (INVEST and D_INVEST) are reported at the real loan rate, and every other cost is reported as before.

In output_objective, the total_cost row still holds the real discounted cost. In perfect foresight, it comes from real_cost. In myopic runs, it is still the sum of the discounted costs in output_cost, exactly as today. When any hurdle is set, a second row, choice_score, holds the objective. In myopic runs, the choice score is the sum of each kept period's score; a later window replaces the periods it overlaps, and a rollback removes them. The log now reports both the choice score and the total cost without the hurdle.

Shadow prices come from the objective, so they include the effect of the hurdle.

Other code that reads the objective

  • In MGA and single-vector MGA, the near-optimality limit still applies to the objective, which is the choice score. The logs now say so, and single-vector MGA's cost comparison uses the real cost.
  • Monte Carlo's output reader carries both rows, and its example analyzer selects the real cost.
  • Both Method of Morris evaluators read the real-cost row.
  • The unit-cost explorer uses the real cost.
  • The stochastic extension's first-stage cost is now taken from the first period's choice score. That score also includes extension costs, such as unit-commitment startups, which the old first-stage expression left out. Stochastic runs that use cost extensions will therefore see a different first-stage cost even with no hurdle.

What does not change

With no hurdle, whether the table is missing, empty or filled with zeros, the model uses the original investment payment and writes no choice_score row. Before changing any code, we saved the objectives and every output row of seven existing test cases at d5148dbb. After the change, all 3,581 rows in 91 tables and all objectives matched on the same machine. That was a one-off check before the pull request; it is not part of the test suite.

Fuel, fixed, variable, emissions and startup cost coefficients, the real loan rate, the global discount rate and existing capacity are all unchanged.

Tests

The new tests solve small models with Gurobi, all of which fit the size-limited licence that comes with gurobipy, and they compare numbers with the same kind of tolerance as Temoa's other tests. They cover the worked example from the issue, survival curves, loan and equipment lives that differ, zero rates, horizons that cut a loan short, existing capacity, economies of scale, overlapping myopic windows, link, fuel, fixed and emissions costs, output thresholds, shadow prices, Monte Carlo, Method of Morris and single-vector MGA.

To check that a zero hurdle changes nothing, Temoa's existing full-run tests still check the objectives of the existing cases as before, and a new test solves Utopia with the hurdle table empty, missing and all zeros and checks each result against Utopia's recorded objective.

The whole suite passes (314 tests), with a full licence and with only the size-limited licence. Ruff, the Ruff formatter and mypy pass. Before pushing, we also ran the project's test workflow on all nine operating system and Python combinations on our fork, and all of them passed.

Related pull requests

Open pull request #388 changes how myopic runs report loan costs, in some of the same files. Open pull request #387 changes the unit-commitment startup costs in the same function this one changes, append_startup_costs. Whichever is merged second will need a small rebase.

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  • New Features
    • Added optional, nonnegative investment hurdle rates by region, technology, and vintage. These rates influence investment choices while reported system costs continue to use the loan rate.
    • Results can include separate real-cost and choice-score metrics when a nonzero hurdle rate applies. Without a hurdle, existing cost reporting is preserved.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on hurdle-rate inputs, their effect on investment decisions and results, and compatibility with modeling extensions.

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Adds optional, process-specific hurdle_rate input. It changes the investment weighting in the choice objective while preserving real-cost accounting. The changes also update myopic reporting, extension cost handling, analysis tools, and regression coverage.

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Investment Hurdle Rate

Layer / File(s) Summary
Hurdle-rate input and model contract
temoa/db_schema/temoa_schema_v4.sql, temoa/data_io/component_manifest.py, temoa/core/model.py, docs/source/database_schema.mmd, docs/source/hurdle_rates.rst, docs/source/mathematical_formulation.rst, docs/source/param_desc_and_tables.rst, docs/source/index.rst, tests/testing_data/hurdle_rate.sql
Adds an optional hurdle_rate table indexed by region, technology, and vintage. Missing input defaults to zero. Documentation describes the input, its validation, and its use.
Investment choice and real-cost accounting
temoa/components/costs.py, temoa/core/model.py, temoa/_internal/run_actions.py, temoa/_internal/table_data_puller.py, tests/test_hurdle_rate.py, docs/source/hurdle_rates.rst
Adds hurdle-adjusted investment annualization and separate real-cost and choice-score accounting. Logs and objective output distinguish these values.
Extension cost integration
temoa/extensions/economies_of_scale/components/*, temoa/extensions/unit_commitment/components/startup.py, temoa/extensions/stochastics/scenario_creator.py, tests/test_hurdle_rate.py, docs/source/extensions/eos.rst
Routes economies-of-scale and startup costs through period accounting. Investment processes that share an economies-of-scale curve must have matching hurdle rates. Stochastic first-stage accounting uses the period choice score.
Output and analysis workflows
temoa/extensions/myopic/myopic_sequencer.py, temoa/extensions/modeling_to_generate_alternatives/mga_sequencer.py, temoa/extensions/single_vector_mga/*, temoa/extensions/method_of_morris/*, temoa/extensions/monte_carlo/example_builds/scenario_analyzer.py, temoa/utilities/unit_cost_explorer.py, tests/test_hurdle_rate.py, docs/source/hurdle_rates.rst, docs/source/mga.rst
Updates myopic output to retain real costs and choice scores. Analysis queries and summaries select or label the relevant metric. The unit-cost explorer calculates real cost.
Baseline and regression coverage
tests/hurdle_baseline.py, tests/test_hurdle_rate.py, tests/testing_data/hurdle_zero_baseline.txt
Adds zero-hurdle comparisons for default, explicit-zero, and missing hurdle data, plus regression checks against captured output tables and objectives.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant component_manifest
  participant TemoaModel
  participant costs
  participant Solver
  participant table_data_puller
  component_manifest->>TemoaModel: Load hurdle_rate
  TemoaModel->>costs: Build real-cost and choice-score expressions
  costs->>Solver: Supply total_cost choice objective
  Solver->>table_data_puller: Return solved model values
  table_data_puller->>table_data_puller: Record real cost and choice score
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The hurdle-rate regression tests can pass while covering little if the Gurobi license is size-limited, and one capture branch is untested. These are bounded test-quality gaps and do not block merging.

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Issue #391 is directly linked and contains coding requirements. The PR adds the optional hurdle_rate schema, manifest entry, nonnegative validation, and zero behavior for missing tables or rows. It applies loan_rate + hurdle_rate to ordinary, survival-curve, and economies-of-scale investments. It preserves real-rate investment reporting and adds choice_score only when a hurdle is active. The model and output consumers use the correct real-cost or choice-score row. The supplied tests cover the requested cases and no-hurdle regression behavior.

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The changes stay within issue #391. Documentation, cost helpers, economies-of-scale checks, output handling, and regression tests implement or verify hurdle-rate behavior. Updates to MGA, Monte Carlo, Morris, stochastic, myopic, and unit-cost consumers prevent them from reading the wrong cost metric after the new objective row exists. The evidence shows no unrelated change.

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- Around line 124-126: Strengthen the skip guard in the test around `actual` to
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rather than passing when any single case is solved.
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assert any('skip_reason' not in output for output in actual.values()), (
'At least one existing zero-hurdle case must fit the Gurobi license'
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Strengthen the skip guard.

This assertion requires only one case to avoid skip_reason. If a size-limited license skips most cases, the regression test still passes and covers little. Consider asserting a required minimum set of cases, for example utopia and test_system, solved without skip.

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Strengthen the skip guard in the test around `actual` to require both `utopia`
and `test_system` to be present without `skip_reason`, rather than passing when
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@pytest.mark.parametrize(
'error,skip_size_limited',
[
(gurobipy.GurobiError(gurobipy.GRB.Error.NO_LICENSE, 'No license'), True),
(
gurobipy.GurobiError(
gurobipy.GRB.Error.NUMERIC, 'Model too large for size-limited license'
),
True,
),
(RuntimeError('Model too large for size-limited license'), True),
(
gurobipy.GurobiError(
gurobipy.GRB.Error.SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED, 'Model too large for size-limited license'
),
False,
),
],
ids=['no_license', 'other_gurobi_error', 'other_exception', 'strict_capture'],
)
def test_baseline_capture_propagates_errors(
tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, error: Exception, skip_size_limited: bool
) -> None:
def fail_start(self: TemoaSequencer) -> None:
raise error

monkeypatch.setattr(TemoaSequencer, 'start', fail_start)
with pytest.raises(type(error)) as caught:
capture_cases(tmp_path, 'default', skip_size_limited=skip_size_limited)
assert caught.value is error

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the misleading test cases.

The first three parameters use skip_size_limited=True with errors that are not SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED. They verify propagation. The strict_capture case with False verifies that a size-limit error is not swallowed. No test covers the positive case, where skip_size_limited=True and a SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED error produce a skip_reason snapshot. The skip branch is therefore unexercised. Add a test that expects snapshots[name]['skip_reason'] for the first case.

Also, the capture_cases loop builds and runs the first case only, because start raises. This is fine for propagation tests.

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Review comment at @tests/test_hurdle_rate.py around lines 145 - 174:
Add a test for the skip branch in `capture_cases`: make `TemoaSequencer.start`
raise a `GurobiError` with `GRB.Error.SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` while
`skip_size_limited=True`, then assert the resulting snapshot’s `skip_reason`.
Keep the existing propagation cases unchanged.

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