Net costs as impact category & export

Question

Hello,

I am currently looking into LCC approaches in openLCA, and I was wondering if it is possible to find a workaround of connecting the net costs/added value to an impact category and integrating the process cost values in an LCIA method. I would like to use the "net costs" as an indicator.

As far as I have seen, one can only access the net costs/added values in the openLCA result section. However, when exporting the results those information are not exported, hence, the cost values do not occur in the exported excel results and can not be further processed.

I am looking forward to any feedback on this issue.

Kind regards,

Madeleine

Answer 1

Hello,

In the contribution tree, where the 'Cost Category' is shown, you can select the entire tree, right-click, and copy it into an Excel sheet. In recent versions of openLCA (v2.6), you can also use 'Export to Excel' to export the full contribution tree directly.

You can then use the topmost value as the net costs indicator. However, for LCC it generally makes more sense to evaluate each process in the product system separately, because, unlike LCA, costs and revenues in real life are incurred by individual companies or industries along the supply chain.