Geothermal module default case has $0 Revenue in Single Value Mode

  • henry.johnston@nrel.gov
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18 Feb 2021 09:37 #9297 by henry.johnston@nrel.gov
The geothermal module default case has $0 Revenue. The default Cleared capacity (MW) value is set to 0 MW. When changing this default value to 30 MW, the Single Value Mode yields $0 in Revenue.

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19 Feb 2021 10:11 #9310 by pgilman
Hi Henry,

We do not have data to determine reasonable default pricing data for the Merchant Plant financial model. For the other financial models (PPA Single Owner, Residential, Commercial, etc.), we use information from the NREL Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) and other published cost studies to choose default values for cost and financial assumptions that reasonably represent a typical project in the U.S. Merchant pricing data that can be generalized in this same way is not available. We expect that people using SAM's merchant plant model have access to their own pricing data. We also made a decision not to use the "single value" option as the default to try to make it clear that the model requires time series data over the project life.

Best regards,
Paul.

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