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

• ProFastComp: calculates levelized cost of commodity using ProFAST.