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Battery storage project financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for a battery storage operator, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Owns grid-scale batteries earning energy arbitrage, frequency control (FCAS / ancillary) and capacity or tolling payments.

In short

  • 01

    Three linked statements

    Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, linked in every period.

  • 02

    Valuation built in

    Choose from 7 methods, from discounted cash flow to precedent deals.

  • 03

    Monthly to annual

    Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual periods, for up to 30 years.

  • 04

    Checked every period

    A Checks sheet shows the balance sheet balances and the cash reconciles.

What it covers

12 parts, each one tested.

Every part is a tested building block with its own checks: yours is put together from the ones your business needs.

  • Wholesale electricity price curveThe wholesale electricity price forecast used by the revenue and cost parts that need it.
  • Asset registerThe facts every other part of the model builds on — capacity, opening book value and remaining life.
  • Development and constructionConstruction capex, commercial operation date and ramp-up for new assets, and the development pipeline.
  • GenerationElectricity sent out (or discharged) by each asset in each period.
  • Energy revenueRevenue from selling electricity (or discharging storage) under contracts and in the wholesale market.
  • Certificates, ancillary and capacity revenueRevenue beyond energy sales — green certificates, frequency control and other ancillary services, and capacity or support payments.
  • Fuel, charging energy and carbon costsVariable cost of the energy an asset consumes — gas, coal, charging or pumping electricity, electrolyser power — and its carbon cost.
  • Operating costsSite operating costs — O&M, asset management, land lease, insurance, grid charges and community payments.
  • Asset base and depreciationSustaining and replacement capex and depreciation of each asset's property, plant and equipment.
  • Clean energy tax creditsProduction and investment tax credits earned by an asset, whether used by the owner, sold to a third party or allocated to a tax equity investor.
  • Decommissioning and restoration provisionsProvisions to remove generation assets, abandon wells and restore sites — recognition, unwinding and spend.
  • Energy and utility KPIsThe ratios investors and lenders use to judge energy and utility businesses.
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01cycles per year
  2. 02arbitrage spread captured
  3. 03revenue per MW
  4. 04state of health
  5. 05LCOS
  6. 06equity IRR
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