Fixed overhead

What this is

Administration, management and planning: the operator's own running costs, charged as a share on top of its other costs. The base excludes charges paid to infrastructure companies.

Administration, management and planning, as a share of the operator's other costs.

The formula

$$C_{fix,oh} = q_{fix,oh} \times \left(C_{op,var} - C_{var,oh} + C_{op,fix}\right)$$

	Symbol	Meaning	Unit	Where it comes from
Input	q_fix,oh	Fixed overhead share	fraction	operator_fix_overhead_quota_per
Input	C_op,var	All variable operator costs	€/year	computed upstream
Input	C_var,oh	Variable overhead (excluded from the base)	€/year	var_overhead_eur
Input	C_op,fix	All fixed operator costs	€/year	computed upstream
Result	C_fix,oh	Annual fixed overhead	€/year	—

Feeds into: operator_fixed_total_eur

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