2018 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB)

Technical Report · Tue Jul 31 04:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1463080· OSTI ID:1463080

Vimmerstedt, Laura J. ^[1]; Augustine, Chad R. ^[1]; Beiter, Philipp C. ^[1]; Cole, Wesley J. ^[1]; Feldman, David J. ^[1]; Kurup, Parthiv ^[1]; Lantz, Eric J. ^[1]; Margolis, Robert M. ^[1]; Stehly, Tyler J. ^[1]; Turchi, Craig S. ^[1]; O'Connor, Patrick ^[2]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Consistent cost and performance data for various electricity generation technologies can be difficult to find and may change frequently for certain technologies. With the Annual Technology Baseline (ATB), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory annually provides an organized and centralized set of such cost and performance data. The ATB uses the best information from the Department of Energy national laboratories' renewable energy analysts as well as information from the Energy Information Administration for fuel-based technologies. The ATB has been reviewed by experts and it includes the following electricity generation technologies: land-based wind, offshore wind, utility-scale solar photovoltaics (PV), commercial-scale solar PV, residential-scale solar PV, concentrating solar power, geothermal power, hydropower, coal, natural gas, nuclear, and conventional biopower. This webinar presentation introduces the 2018 ATB.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Strategic Programs (EE-SP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1463080
• Report Number(s): NREL/PR--6A20-71846
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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