Documentation of the Resource Allocation and Mine-Costing (RAMC) model

Technical Report · Wed Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6647638

The RAMC is a computerized model designed to translate information on coal reserves and cost factors in the development of new mines into a set of long-term supply curves that depict the relationship between price and production for specific coal types from different supply regions. To provide a flexible tool for coal supply analysis, the RAMC incorporates detailed representations of coal supply regions, coal types, and classes of mining. The cost of coal that will be produced in the future is affected by many factors that include financial factors in the coal and electric utility industries, capital, labor and other operating costs, and costs related to government regulation and taxes. The RAMC incorporates these factors, and permits them to be varied by supply region and type of coal where appropriate. The detail inherent in the RAMC supply curves permits a wide range of application. The principal EIA model using the RAMC supply curves is the National Coal Model (NCM). In addition, the RAMC supply curves are used in the International Coal Trade Model (ICTM), the Mid-term Energy Forecasting System (MEFS), The Coal Supply and Transportation Model (CSTM), and the Long-term Energy Analysis Program (LEAP). They are also a source of long-term supply inputs for the Intermediate Future Forecasting System (IFFS) currently under development by EIA. The RAMC permits a coal market model to investigate a wide range of issues. For example, issues relating to federal leasing can be addressed by varying the reserves available to the model, the effect of alternative pollution requirements can be modeled because sulfur content is explicitly represented in detail, state tax policies can be modeled because all regions are states or substate areas, changes in reclamation requirements of both state and federal levels can be incorporated in the coal supply analysis, and the impact of both union wage and pension agreements can be modeled.

• Research Organization: Synergic Resources Corp., Bala-Cynwyd, PA (USA); Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6647638
• Report Number(s): DOE/NBB-0020; ON: DE83005452
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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