core_nrelatb__yearly_projected_cost_performance
Annual time series of projections of costs and performance for various technologies.
- Most-recent data:
2024
- Processing:
Data has been cleaned and organized into well-modeled tables that serve as building blocks for downstream wide tables and analyses.
- Source:
NREL Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) for Electricity
- Primary key:
This table has no primary key. The fields technology_description_detail_1 and technology_description_detail_2 occasionally contain nulls, preventing this table from having a primary key.
Additional Details
This table includes NREL's projections for capital and operational costs as well as operational attributes for a variety of technologies for each of the NREL ATB scenarios. Each new year of ATB data includes projections for the next 25 years.
All of the NREL tables are related. If you want to understand the financial assumptions of a given scenario in this table, see core_nrelatb__yearly_projected_financial_cases. The other two core_nrealatb tables include attributes about technologies in these projections.
Columns
Four-digit year in which the data was reported.
NREL's financial assumption cases. There are two cases which effect project financial assumptions: R&D Only Case and Market + Policies Case. R&D Only includes only projected R&D improvements while Market + Policy case includes policy and tax incentives. https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2024/financial_cases_&_methods
NREL's tax credit assumption cases. There are two types of tax credits: production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC). For more detail, see: https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2024/financial_cases_&_methods
The year of the projected value.
High level description of the technology used by the generator to produce electricity.
The period over which the initial capital investment to build a plant is recovered.
Technology innovation scenarios. https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2023/definitions#scenarios
Technology details indicate resource levels and specific technology subcategories.
Technology details indicate resource levels and specific technology subcategories.
Fraction of potential generation that was actually reported for a plant part. Energy generated over time period / nameplate capacity * time period (hours/years/etc.).
Capital cost (USD). Expenditures required to achieve commercial operation of the generation plant.
capex if plant could be constructed overnight (i.e., excludes construction period financing); includes on-site electrical equipment (e.g., switchyard), a nominal-distance spur line (<1 mi), and necessary upgrades at a transmission substation.
capex for retrofits if plant could be constructed overnight (i.e., excludes construction period financing); includes on-site electrical equipment (e.g., switchyard), a nominal-distance spur line (<1 mi), and necessary upgrades at a transmission substation.
Overnight capital cost includes a nominal-distance spur line (<1 mi) for all technologies, and for offshore wind, it includes export cable and construction period transit costs for a 30-km distance from shore. Project-specific costs lines that are based on distance to existing transmission are not included. This only applies to offshore wind.
Portion of all-in capital cost associated with construction period financing. This factor is applied to an overnight capital cost to represent the financing costs incurred during the construction period.
Fuel costs in USD$/MWh. NREL-derived values using heat rates.
Fuel content per unit of electricity generated.
Heat rate penalty for retrofitting. This column only has contents to retrofit technologies. It seems to be a rate between 0.35 and 0.09
Levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is a summary metric that combines the primary technology cost and performance parameters: capital expenditures, operations expenditures, and capacity factor.
Penalty for retrofitting for net output. This column only has contents to retrofit technologies. It seems to be a rate between -0.25 and -0.08
Fixed operation and maintenance expenses. Annual expenditures to operate and maintain equipment that are not incurred on a per-unit-energy basis.
Operation and maintenance costs incurred on a per-unit-energy basis.