Update carriers included in carrier costs inputs

[mabijkerk]

Background
There are fuel price sliders in the model, for example for fossil fuels. The inputs behind these sliders, set not just one carrier, but often multiple carriers that belong to the same group. For example for costs_oil:

    UPDATE_WITH_FACTOR(
        CARRIER(crude_oil, lpg, diesel, gasoline), cost_per_mj, relative_value)

Issue
These inputs appear to be outdated, since they do not include all releveant carriers. For example for oil, at least heavy fuel oil and kerosene are missing. For coal at least cokes and perhaps coal gas is missing. For natural gas at least propane is missing.

Additionally, the sliders texts don't explain that these sliders change both the direct carrier mentioned, but also related carriers.

Solution

• Carefully review all fuel costs sliders to see which sliders should be updated with additional carriers
• If possible, define and use carrier groups in these sliders
• Update slider descriptions to clearly explain that this change related carriers as well.

@kaskranenburgQ or @kndehaan can either of you pick this up at some point?

[kaskranenburgQ]

As of now the following carriers are not in a cost update input which do have a non-zero value assigned for the attribute cost_per_mj:

• coal_gas
• cokes
• heavy_fuel_oil
• kerosene
• methanol
• propane
• refinery_gas (not really used in the model)
• oil_products (not really used in the model)

While the following carriers are not in any of the carrier groups and might need to be placed in a group or form a new one:

• Imported ammonia + ammonia in ammonia group
• Imported liquid hydrogen + liquid hydrogen in liquid hydrogen group
• Imported lohc + Lohc in lohc group
• Imported hydrogen for in the hydrogen group

We might need to review the following carrier groups:

• carrier_group_biomass_products
• carrier_group_biomass_products_imports

These two have overlap in the carrier biogenic_waste.
In addition, the group carrier_group_biomass_products contains all the biomass carriers. The biomass inputs for costs that we have are more detailed then this carrier group.

I propose the following changes:

• Base coal cost input on carrier_group_coal_and_derivatives (coal_gas,cokes,coal & lignite)
• Base oil cost input on carrier_group_oil_and_derivatives (crude_oil, gasoline, diesel, lpg, kerosene, heavy_fuel_oil
• Base gas cost input on carrier_group_natural_gas (natural_gas, low_caloric_gas, high_caloric_gas, compressed_network_gas, lng, propane) --> Is compressed network okay for this group?
• Add imported hydrogen to the hydrogen group and base hydrogen input on this group.

To discuss:

• Addition of ammonia, liquid hydrogen, lohc & methanol groups
• Addition of more specific biomass carrier groups
• Addition of methanol cost input

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