Power Infrastructure Tools

Decision Tools for Power Buyers

Four tools cover the sequence a behind-the-meter project actually follows: pick a technology, price the equipment, size the system, and test the economics against grid delay. Each runs on the same published constants and the same marketplace data, so numbers carried from one to the next stay consistent.

• Power Intelligence — compares solid oxide fuel cells, aeroderivative gas turbines, reciprocating gas engines, diesel generators, and solar plus storage on twenty-year net present value, time to power, and fleet availability computed from unit count and forced-outage rate.
• Pricing Index — four-tier price bands by category: New OEM, Gray Market, Refurbished, and Used, each a midpoint with a percentile range.
• Project Configurator — sizes a specific build against a load profile and returns an equipment list.
• Shadow Grid — models on-site generation economics against interconnection queue timelines.

Which Tool To Start With

What the Tools Share

All four run on one set of published constants: fuel price assumptions by region, capital cost bands drawn from the same transaction data behind the Pricing Index, discount rate, and equipment lead times by category. Change an input in one tool and the same input means the same thing in the next, which is why a configuration sized here reconciles with the cost it was compared on.

Outputs are ranges, not point estimates. A twenty-year net present value quoted to the dollar would imply a precision the underlying data does not support, so results are reported as bands with the sensitivity that drives them stated alongside. Where a figure depends on a policy that is still in rulemaking, the tool says so rather than assuming an outcome.

Saving and Sharing Results

A run can be saved to an account and retrieved later from the intelligence portal, which matters when a procurement decision is revisited months after the first pass and the inputs need to be defended. Saved runs record the constants version used, so a later re-run shows what changed in the model as distinct from what changed in the project.

Limits

These are screening tools. They narrow a decision from five options to one or two and quantify the trade-offs well enough to brief a board, but they do not replace a single-line study, a protection coordination review, or a site-specific interconnection application. Category detail behind each recommendation sits in the equipment marketplace, and published analysis in articles and reports.

Which Tool To Start With

Power Intelligence answers which technology; the Configurator answers what to build. Start with Power Intelligence when the generation approach is still open, and with the Configurator when it is settled. Assumptions, constants, and dataset versions for all four are published on the methodology page, and model-level detail sits in the equipment marketplace.