wind turbines do not yet have variable costs, these are now included as fixed costs about merit HOT 5 CLOSED

@JAlsem: what exactly needs to happen here? (I can't tell what should be the action for this ticket. And does @AlexanderWirtz need to do this really?)

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Alexander told me that now the variable costs for wind turbines are included as fixed costs, so the marginal costs for wind turbines which are used for the merit order are set to be 0. The marginal costs are defined as "variable costs per MWh".
It would be more realistic to set a certain value for the variable costs.
This would make the revenue for wind turbines lower. However, for the total profit this does not have an effect, since the total costs are taken into account and it does not matter if costs are called "variable costs" or "fixed costs".

@AlexanderWirtz wanted me to remember him to have a look into the possibility to assign variable costs to the wind turbines.

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@wmeyers I would like to quickly address this on research dataset clean up day

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@JAlsem I will try to verify the central assumption I found in our research data that wind park owners treat all O&M as fixed, since they have standard maintenance contracts. The research would allow us to split O&M into fixed and flexible. I do not see this ias a problem for merit though, so I suggest we move this ticket to InputExcel (with tag Research dataset) and close it here. @dennisschoenmakers agreed?

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Agree. Closed.

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