Solar Chemical/AI Plant Builder

📅 Analysis Cycle ▾

🌍 Site ▾

Preset Site

Latitude Longitude

Annual Yield (MWh / MWdc / year)

This is the long-run annual PV output per MWdc. For a more accurate site-specific number, use a cloud/weather-adjusted source such as PVGIS or Global Solar Atlas PVOUT.

— kWh/m²/yr

— hrs/day

☀️ Solar Array ▾

System Size (MW) 1.0 MW Panel Efficiency (%) 20.0% Panel Cost ($/W) $0.20/W Annual Panel Degradation (%/yr) 0.65%/yr

Multi-year economics fade solar-linked output by the selected annual PV degradation rate.

Mounting Type $0.20/W Land Cost ($/acre) $5,000/acre Site Prep ($/acre) $15,000/acre

— MWh/MWdc-yr

— MWh

— %

— $/MWh

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🔋 Battery Storage ▾

Set capacity to 0 to disable the battery. A fixed 2%/month standing energy leakage is always applied.

Capacity (MWh)

Cost ($/kWh) $150/kWh Round-trip Efficiency (%) 90% Cycle Life 4,000

— %

— hrs

— $/MWh

⚗️ Processes ▾

Chemical peak sizing

Lower values build less peak chemical capacity and allow solar clipping on the highest-output hours.

Supported modules

Exploratory industrial modules

Roughly modeled with route-specific throughput, feed, CAPEX, and sale-price assumptions that now flow through project economics.

Enable on-site AI datacenter Modeled

Full-rate reliability target

The AI load is auto-sized from the current solar plus battery system to satisfy the selected full-rate uptime target. The chemical plant then ramps up and down only on the residual energy left after AI load and battery charging.

GPU CAPEX is modeled on a direct-current datacenter framing ($/kW installed IT load).

GPU CAPEX ($/kW) $50,000/kW Token price ($ / 1M tokens) $3.00 / 1M tokens Throughput (1M tokens / MWh) 1,000 M tokens/MWh GPU Asset Life (years) 5 years

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💰 Market & Incentives ▾

Product markets

Set sale-price assumptions only for products the current build actually generates.

Methane Market Preset

Applies in Generic / multi-country

Modeled as Simple sale-price assumption for commodity methane

Use this to label the market structure behind the methane price. Europe support is country-specific and often tender- or CfD-like, so the methane price remains a manual assumption.

Methane Sale Price ($/MCF) $20.00/MCF

This is a market / offtake assumption, not a country-specific subsidy. Use lower values for commodity gas cases and higher values for premium synthetic methane or biomethane contracts.

Methanol Price ($/ton) $600/ton

Incentive scheme

Model one named program or framework at a time. The active input controls come from the selected scheme definition.

Scheme

Applies in None selected

Modeled as Pure market revenue only

Stacking rule No direct support selected

US policy caveats

Older Terraform materials sometimes discuss US electricity-side support using `45E` language. For current solar scenarios this app now maps the power-side incentive discussion to `45Y` and `48E`.

This panel still models one named program or framework at a time unless you choose `Custom mixed support`. In real US projects, solar-side and product-side incentives can interact through ownership, transferability, and tax structure, so treat the result as a TEA simplification rather than legal advice.

Project economics

Keep asset life, evaluation window, and discount rate in one place.

Solar Asset Life (years) 30 years Analysis Horizon (years) 30 years Discount Rate (%) 8%

🏦 Financing ▾

Debt structure

Switch between unlevered project returns and an equity-style view funded with upfront debt.

Enable debt financing for equity IRR

Headline return: Project IRR (unlevered)
Debt scope: Debt disabled; project cash flows stay unlevered
Term cap: Max 30 years from the analysis horizon

When enabled, the headline IRR switches to sponsor equity IRR. Project NPV and payback remain unlevered, and debt only funds upfront CAPEX.

Debt assumptions

Debt Share (% of upfront CAPEX) 70% Interest Rate (%) 6.50% Debt Term (years) 15 years Upfront Fee (% of debt) 1.50%

🔧 Maintenance & Operations (M&O) ▾

Fixed annual O&M

Apply simple operating cost rates by equipment category. Active exploratory routes share one clearly labeled Exploratory M&O control below.

Basis: Annual percent of installed CAPEX by category.
Excluded: Land acquisition and site prep.

Solar O&M (%/year) 1.5%/yr

Applies to solar modules and BOS only; excludes land and site prep.

Process O&M (%/year) 3.0%/yr

Applies to electrolyzer, DAC, and downstream product equipment.

Battery O&M (%/year) 1.5%/yr

Applies to battery CAPEX only.

Site Footprint

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Satellite view for Earth locations. Click the map or drag the site pin to set latitude and longitude (the Site block updates). The highlighted amber square is the estimated total site footprint (solar + active plant modules); the high-contrast colored subblocks grouped at the top-left show the individual process areas in a simple side-by-side row.

Site Footprint

Power Profile

Annual Dispatch

Economics Over Time