TOOLS AND MARKET INTELLIGENCE

DECH Distributed Energy What-If Calculator

See what changes your distributed energy economics

Use one recent electricity bill to create a quick starting point, then explore how a few assumptions change the result.

1. Tell us about the site

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About 30 seconds

Ready to run analysis.

Delivered electricity cost $0.130/kWh Bill amount ÷ kWh
Estimated demand charge $12/kW-mo Illustrative regional default
Estimated annual usage — Season-adjusted from this bill
Bill-period context — —

2. Change the assumptions

Results update instantly after the analysis is run.

$0.05 $0.30/kWh
$0 $40/kW-mo
$200 $500/kWh
$0.90 $2.25/W
−2% +8%

Your What-If result

Indicative project cost — Rounded to the nearest $1,000
Simple payback range — Three-year illustrative spread

What is driving your What-If result?

Each bar shows that slider's isolated effect on midpoint payback compared with your starting analysis.

Full bar = 3.0 years of payback impact

This quick tool is for directional exploration and information only. It is not a detailed engineering analysis, tariff analysis, financial projects or investment recommendation. The analysis does not consider the full distributed energy value stack.