The ICF, Inc. Coal and Electric Utilities Model: An Analysis and Evaluation. Volume II: Documentation and Verification of Model Implementation

摘要

This volume presents an evaluation of the ICF, Inc. Coal and Electric Utilities Model (CEUM) documentation, and a verification of the model's implementation. Chapter 1 reviews the development history and previous applications of the CEUM. Chapter 2 presents an evaluation of the CEUM documentation, and Chapter 3 extends the existing documentation by providing a detailed mathematical formulation of the LP portion of the CEUM. Chapter 4 reviews the program structure and operating characteristics. Finally, Chapter 5 presents the results of verifying the correspondence between documentation and computer implementation, the accuracy of implementation, and the effect of implementation errors upon model results.