Functionality
The first section of the dashboard, showing the investment costs by decade, emission intensity and the summary table until 2040 gives the user an overall picture of the decarbonization projections for the country.
The second section below dives into the capacity mix, generation mix, fuel use, and emission reductions of each scenario. This section can be filtered by scenario and year for more granular results. The user can a single country or Select All to see data for all countries. The user can select a single scenario or several scenarios, where applicable.
Interpreting Results
The dashboard highlights the key results for all available scenarios, including:
Generation investment needs by decade:
This graph shows the cumulative discounted investment for each decade and scenario. The y-axis shows the discounted investment needs in billion USD and the x axis shows, for each scenario, the cumulative investment in 2022-2030, 2022-2040 and 2022-2050. A discount rate of 6 percent is assumed.
Emissions from electricity generations:
This graph shows the total emissions from electricity generation in tCO2e for each scenario. The total emissions are on the y-axis and the year is on the x-axis.
Generation capacity and peak demand:
This graph shows, for each scenario and categorized by fuel, the capacity mix for 2022, 2030, 2040 and 2050. It also shows how the peak demand varies by year and scenario. The y-axis shows the capacity and peak demand in MW and the x-axis shows both the year and scenario.
Electricity generation and share of generation from renewable energy:
The primary y-axis on this graph shows the generation mix in GWh categorized by fuels as shown in the legend, and the secondary y-axis shows the share of generation from variable renewable energy (solar and wind) and renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal) as a percentage. The y-axis shows the years. When no scenario is selected, this graph shows the cumulative generation for all scenarios.
Fossil fuel use and share of generation from fossil fuels:
This primary y-axis shows the fossil fuel used for each type of fuel (Fossil fuels include HFO, Diesel, LNG, Gas, GasCCS, and Diesel) in million MMBtu and the secondary y-axis shows the share of generation from fossil fuels as a percentage. The x axis divides this data into 4 years ¨C 2022, 2030, 2040 and 2050 for each scenario.
Emission intensity of electricity generation:
This graph shows the emission intensity in gCO2e/kWh on the y-axis across the modelling horizon, with years on the x-axis.
Annual system cost:
The primary y-axis shows the costs in bUSD, categorized by type of costs as can be seen in the legend for this graph. Annual system cost is the combined cost of the annualized capital expenditure, fixed and variable operation and maintenance costs, fuel costs, and the unmet demand cost (the model-imposed penalty if demand is not met) in each year.
Normalized average generation cost:
The y-axis shows the normalized average generation cost in $/MWh and the x-axis shows the years in the modelling horizon. The normalized average generation cost is the annual system cost divided by the annual generation, normalized where the base year is equal to one. The value is a proxy for how the generation component of the cost of electricity may evolve over time.
Time Horizon
The second section of the dashboard enables users to delve into specific scenarios and explore various time horizons for the results. Although the default time horizon for the dashboard is set to 2022-2040, certain country analysis extends to 2022-2050 to meet the unique requirements of the respective countries.