Cost-Benefit Analysis

The document describes the functionality of LEAP's Cost-Benefit View, which calculates capital, operating, and maintenance costs across energy systems, including optional environmental externalities. It emphasizes that the tool focuses on social opportunity costs rather than consumer prices or financial viability, and allows users to define costing boundaries to accommodate data limitations regarding upstream technologies.

• LEAP's cost-benefit analysis calculates costs for the energy system, including capital and operating maintenance for technologies, primary resource extraction, and fuel imports/exports, with an option to include environmental externalities by assigning costs to pollutant emissions.
• The analysis focuses on social opportunity costs to society rather than final consumer prices or the financial viability of a project, as prices may be distorted by subsidies or transfer payments.
• Users can define a costing boundary in the Transformation module to exclude costs from upstream activities, such as oil refining or coal mining, when such data is unavailable.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (n.d.). Cost-Benefit Analysis. https://leap.sei.org/Help24/Concepts/Social_Cost-Benefit_Analysis.htm

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Cost-Benefit Analysis. n.d. https://leap.sei.org/Help24/Concepts/Social_Cost-Benefit_Analysis.htm.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Cost-Benefit Analysis |url=https://leap.sei.org/Help24/Concepts/Social_Cost-Benefit_Analysis.htm |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitutendcostbenefit, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Cost-Benefit Analysis}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, url = {https://leap.sei.org/Help24/Concepts/Social_Cost-Benefit_Analysis.htm}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }