New tool to help bring innovation in sustainable energy to market

KIC InnoEnergy’s new cost evaluation platform, DELPHOS, is designed to make publicly available a series of cost models and basic datasets to improve the analysis of the impact of innovations on costs and to allow the research community, industry, policy makers and investors to make robust decisions about the role of innovation in the energy sector as well as to feed their strategy definition processes.

The goal is that DELPHOS become a reference tool for the evaluation of the impact of single and concrete innovation on the typical economical parameters of energy facilities, being the levelised cost of energy (LCOE) the key indicator. DELPHOS provides a simple but exhaustive methodology to assess the impact of innovation on typical renewable energies power plants such as wind energy (onshore and offshore), photovoltaics (coming soon) and solar-thermal electricity.

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