NREL Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) electricity cost projections from the offi
NREL Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) electricity cost projections from the official open-data release on the OEDI data lake (latest release found automatically): LCOE ($/MWh), CAPEX, overnight capital cost, fixed/variable O&M, capacity factor and more, per technology and resource class, yearly to 2050-2060, for a scenario, financial case, tax-credit setting and cost-recovery period. US-focused, real-dollar values as published by NREL.
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Endpoint
GET https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/energy/nrel-atb-cost-benchmarks
| Category | Everything else |
|---|---|
| Provider host | api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev |
| Networks | eip155:10, eip155:137, eip155:143, eip155:42161, eip155:42220, eip155:480, eip155:5042, eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp, stellar:pubnet, xrpl:0 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 2 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.002 | 20 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"metric": "LCOE",
"scenario": "Moderate",
"technology": "UtilityPV",
"year": "2030"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"allClasses": {
"description": "true to return every resource class, default only NREL's representative (default) class",
"type": "string"
},
"case": {
"description": "Financial case as published (ATB 2025: Exp or R&D; older: Market or R&D). Default: Exp, else Market",
"type": "string"
},
"crpYears": {
"description": "Cost recovery period in years, 20 or 30 (default 30)",
"type": "string"
},
"metric": {
"description": "One of LCOE, CAPEX, OCC, Fixed O&M, Variable O&M, CF, Fuel, Heat Rate, FCR, WACC Real (default LCOE)",
"type": "string"
},
"scenario": {
"description": "Moderate (default), Advanced or Conservative",
"type": "string"
},
"taxCredits": {
"description": "true to use the tax-credit case (ITC/PTC), default false",
"type": "string"
},
"technology": {
"description": "ATB technology, e.g. UtilityPV, LandbasedWind, OffShoreWind, NaturalGas_FE, Nuclear, Geothermal, Utility-Scale Battery Storage, CommPV, ResPV, Hydropower, CSP, Biopower, Coal_FE",
"type": "string"
},
"year": {
"description": "Single projection year (e.g. 2030). Omit for the full yearly series",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"technology"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}