Table 9 Agent parametrisation of the decision-making process in MUSE based on survey findings.
Agent attribute | In Eq. 12 | Agent’s parametrisation based on survey | Survey questions formulation |
|---|---|---|---|
Questionnaire in provided links | |||
Objectives | Obj. | Capital expenditure | Question 19 |
Operational Cost | |||
Net Present Value | |||
Search Rule | SR | Investors are found to be sophisticated, open to innovations and risk under certain circumstances, and able to gather information on all available natural-gas-based technologies. | Question 10 |
Question 13 | |||
Question 15 | |||
Decision strategy | DS | Multi-objective. The Weighted Sum is applied which transforms the set of objectives into a single-objective by multiplying each objective with a pre-defined weight. | Question 19 |
Type, new or retrofit | TP | Both new and retrofit agents are found from the survey. | Question 10 |
Budget | B | Each enterprise provides their available budget to invest in fuel-switching technologies. | Question 21 |
Question 22 | |||
Question 24 | |||
Technology Stock | TS | The current technologies in place in addition to natural-gas-based technologies are considered. | Question 13 |
Agent Population Percentage | PP | The PP is known from the total of surveyed enterprises. | From the total of surveyed enterprises |
