The EPSA Project Finance Mapping Tool

Technical Report · Fri Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1265841· OSTI ID:1265841

Hadley, Stanton W. ^[1]; Chinthavali, Supriya ^[1]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

The Energy Policy and Systems Analysis Office of DOE has requested a tool to compare the impact of various Federal policies on the financial viability of generation resources across the country. Policy options could include production tax credits, investment tax credits, solar renewable energy credits, tax abatement, accelerated depreciation, tax-free loans, and others. The tool would model the finances of projects in all fifty states, and possibly other geographic units like utility service territories and RTO/ISO territories. The tool would consider the facility s cost, financing, production, and revenues under different capital and market structures to determine things like levelized cost of energy, return on equity, and cost impacts on others (e.g., load-serving entities, society.) The tool would compare the cost and value of the facility to the local regional alternatives to determine how and where policy levers may provide sufficient incremental value to motivate investment. The results will be displayed through a purpose-built visualization that maps geographic variations and shows associated figures and tables.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1265841
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM--2015/638; EP0100000; PIPE211
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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