Model for Electricity Technology Assessment (META)

The Model for Electricity Technology Assessment (META) facilitates the comparative assessment of the economic costs of more than 50 electricity generation and delivery technologies.

Technologies include conventional generation options (thermal, hydroelectric, etc.), nonconventional options (renewables), and emerging options such as power storage and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

META has an option for incorporating the costs associated with externalities in power generation such as local pollution and Green House Gas emissions. The META model can also be used to undertake uncertainty analysis for selected key inputs.

META is populated with default performance and cost data inputs drawn from three representative countries: India, Romania and the USA, which were chosen as proxies for developing, middle-income and developed countries, respectively. Users also have the option of customizing the data for new countries by entering detailed input data directly into model and for as many parameters as they consider necessary.