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SubRES availability

Technology repositories (SubRES_<name>) declare processes and commodities without regions. Their _Trans workbook decides where they exist. These tags are accepted only in SubRES_<name>_Trans files.

~TFM_AVA

Says in which regions the repository's processes exist. Columns: one or more process filters (pset_pn / process, pset_pd, pset_set, pset_ci, pset_co), AllRegions, and one column per region. Cells hold 1 (available) or 0 (not available). Process filters see only this repository's processes.

~TFM_AVA
pset_pn AllRegions GBL Brazil
* 1 0
INMcem_*_BRA 0 1

The first row makes every process available everywhere except GBL; the second restricts the Brazil-specific processes to Brazil.

How the cells combine:

  • Within a row, the rightmost filled column wins for a region. Put AllRegions to the left of the region columns, so that region columns override it.
  • Across rows, the later row wins. A catch-all row first, then exceptions, is the usual pattern.
  • If the tables switch nothing on — no ~TFM_AVA at all, an empty table, or only zeros — every process of the repository is available in every region.
  • Once at least one process is switched on somewhere, a process that no row switches on is available nowhere. So a table that only names a few processes makes all the others disappear; start with a catch-all row (*, AllRegions = 1) when only some processes need restricting.
  • One wide table with region columns is faster to process than several narrow ones.

~TFM_AVA-C

The commodity counterpart: commodity filters (cset_cn, cset_cd, cset_set), AllRegions, and region columns.

~ReplicateInRegions

Clones a template process from the repository into region-specific copies, for example one per country.

~ReplicateInRegions
Region incode indesc Process
Africa_North DZA Algeria - [Export] LNG_New-Export

Region is the model region of the copy, incode the code plugged into the copy's name (an ISO code, say), indesc the text for its description, and Process the template process.