Finance Models Overview

Finance Models Overview#

General finance models compute finance metrics and are not specific to individual technologies. These models live in the h2integrate/finances/ folder and accept driver_config, tech_config, plant_config, commodity_type, and a description as the inputs and options.

  • driver_config (dict): the folder_outputs specified here may be used by the finance model if the finance model outputs data to a file.

  • tech_config (dict): the technology configs for the technologies to include in the finance calculations

  • plant_config (dict): contains the finance_parameters for the finance model (see Finance Parameters).

  • commodity_type (str): the name of the commodity to use in the finance calculation.

  • description (str, optional): an additional description to use for naming outputs of the finance model.

Note

The commodity_type and description are used in the finance model naming convention. Specifics on the output naming convention for each finance model can be found in their docs.

Currently supported general finance models#

Custom finance models#

A general finance model can be defined similarly to a custom technology model. A custom finance model should be defined in the plant configuration file within the finance_groups section under finance_parameters.

Below shows an example, similar to the Wind Electrolyzer Example of how to define a custom finance model within the plant_config.yaml file:

finance_parameters:
  finance_groups:
    my_finance_model:
      finance_model: simple_lco_finance #this is the key to give it in for supported models
      finance_model_class_name: SimpleLCOFinance #name of the finance class
      finance_model_location: user_finance_model/simple_lco.py #filepath of the finance model relative to the plant_config.yaml file
      model_inputs: #inputs for the finance model
        discount_rate: 0.09
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