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Attempt to clarify price projection rules in docs (#823)
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docs/inputs/projections.rst

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be provided as they are calculated endogenously by the model in all years after the
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base year, so long as the model is in equilibrium mode. Equilibrium mode is active
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as long as the ``maximum_iterations`` parameter in the settings file is greater than 1.
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* For commodities that are **not produced by processes in the model**, prices should be
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* For commodities that are **not produced by processes in the model**, and are not free, prices should be
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provided for all years as they cannot be endogenously calculated.
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* For **environmental** commodities, prices represent levies on production (e.g. carbon tax).
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In most cases, these will not be calculated endogenously, so users should provide
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full price trajectories. The exception is when using the carbon budget
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mode, where the prices of environmental commodities may be updated throughout the simulation.
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Lack of a price trajectory will be interpreted as a price of 0 for all periods (i.e. no levy on production),
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again with the exception of the carbon budget mode.
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Lack of a price trajectory for any commodity will be interpreted as a price of 0 for all periods (i.e. no cost to purchase, and no levy on production), again with the exception of the carbon budget mode.
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Price trajectories should be stored in a CSV file with the structure shown in the
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table below, and referenced from the TOML settings file using the ``projections`` key.

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