A Manual for the Economic Evaluation of Energy Eflciency and Renewable Energy Technologies

Preface
A Manual for the Economic Evaluation of Energy Eflciency and Renewable Energy Technologies provides
guidance on economic evaluation approaches, metrics, and levels of detail required, while offering a
consistent basis on which analysts can perform analyses using standard assumptions and bases. It not only
provides information on the primary economic measures used in economic analyses and the fundamentals
of finance but also provides guidance focused on the special considerations required in the economic
evaluation of energy efficiency and renewable energy systems.

The Analytic Studies Division (ASD) of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed
this manual for the Office of Planning and Assessment (OPA) in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
It is envisioned that this manual will serve as a standard reference on economic evaluation within DOE’S
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Several NREL staff members contributed to this manual through valuable input and review. Outside of
NREL, many people provided information for and reviewed drafts of the manual. Among the latter are
Fred Abel of the Office of Planning and Assessment at DOE, Geopalachari Ramachandra of the Electric
Power Research Institute, Jonathan Koomey of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Lisa Chalstrom of the Iowa
Utilities Board, Marshall Wise of Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Peter Bos of Polydyne, Inc., and Rosalie
Ruegg of the National Institute of Standards. Their help, especially that of Rosalie Ruegg and Peter Bos,
who provided many detailed comments, is very much appreciated.

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