Hi Joyce,
SAM's financial models should be flexible enough to model these types of projects:
- To remove income tax and depreciation from the project, set the state and Federal income tax rates to zero.
- Set debt interest rates to the appropriate bond rate.
SAM's Third Party - Host / Developer model is from the developer's perspective, and is useful for the developer to evaluate whether they can earn a suitable return on a PPA that costs less than the hosts electricity costs given a host's load and electricity rates.
The Third Party - Host model is from the host's perspective to help the Host evaluate whether a lease agreement or PPA is more cost effective. You can model the same project using each Third Party Ownership model to explore the different perspectives.
It might be helpful to create an example file using this approach to see what the limitations are to give us better insight into how to design a new financial model. Have you created any files that you would be willing to share for us to use for that purpose?
Best regards,
Paul.