core_nrelatb__yearly_projected_financial_cases_by_scenario

package: pudl

Annual time series of additional financial assumptions for NREL ATB projections that also vary by technology innovation scenario (scenario_atb), tax credit case (model_tax_credit_case_nrelatb), and cost recovery period (cost_recovery_period_years).

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. There are a small number of records which have nulls in the cost_recovery_period_years column. Based on NREL's documentation, this seems to indicate that those records apply to any relevant cost_recovery_period_years. If those records were non-null, the primary keys of this table would be: ['report_year', 'model_case_nrelatb', 'model_tax_credit_case_nrelatb', 'projection_year', 'technology_description', 'scenario_atb', 'cost_recovery_period_years']

Columns
report_year

Four-digit year in which the data was reported.

model_case_nrelatb

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

model_tax_credit_case_nrelatb

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

projection_year

The year of the projected value.

technology_description

High level description of the technology used by the generator to produce electricity.

scenario_atb
cost_recovery_period_years

The period over which the initial capital investment to build a plant is recovered.

capital_recovery_factor

Ratio of a constant annuity to the present value of receiving that annuity for a given length of time.

debt_fraction

Fraction of capital financed with debt; Debt fraction is assumed financed with equity; also referred to as the leverage ratio.

fixed_charge_rate

Amount of revenue per dollar of investment required that must be collected annually from customers to pay the carrying charges on that investment.

wacc_nominal

Nominal weighted average cost of capital - average expected rate that is paid to finance assets.

wacc_real

Real weighted average cost of capital - average expected rate that is paid to finance assets.