New York VDER Solar Value Stack Customized Calculator (Without Storage)

Description

Sustainable Energy Advantage offers a customized version of NYSERDA’s open-source New York Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER) Solar Value Stack Calculator via license. NYSERDA’s publicly available calculator estimates project revenue based on 3 years of backward-looking historical wholesale market energy and capacity prices.

SEA has customized the VDER Solar Value Stack Calculator to make it forward-looking. Our custom calculator incorporates a range of our own forward-looking energy and capacity price outlooks, which provide a more informative and useful representation of future revenue than historical prices. SEA populates the calculator with its own forward-looking energy and capacity price outlooks for all the NYISO zones through 2055. If a user acquires third-party forecasts of energy and capacity prices, those easily can be incorporated as inputs and used to model revenue on a monthly and annual basis.

Your purchase includes the following additional benefits:

• Updates to the customized calculator for one year from purchase date. Currently SEA’s custom calculator is adapted from Revision 3.2 of NYSERDA’s stock calculator. SEA generally updates it customized version of the calculator approximately three times annually. Typical updates are triggered by:
  • Refreshed forward energy and capacity price outlooks as part of our NY-REMO subscription service;
  • SEA enhancements;
  • Adjustment to single inputs, bug fixes, and/or labeling; and,
  • Revision to NYSERDA’s stock calculator (e.g., NYSERDA revision 3.2 replacing NYSERDA revision 3.1).
• A detailed 25-page orientation / documentation slide deck
• Up to 16 hours of support (e.g., running the calculator, interpreting results, custom modifications, etc.) during the first 90 days of licensing.
  • Additional support is offered currently at a fixed $200/hour labor rate.