This paper provides a bottom up framework to assess and quantify the design and cost of Lithium ion batteries.

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory

This ARPA-E Universisty cost modeling paper provides a structure by which to think through the process of analyzing and modeling cost and introduces how to use the attached spreadsheet template.

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Argonne National Lab has developed a full life-cycle model called GREET (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation). It allows researchers and analysts to evaluate various vehicle and fuel combinations on a full fuel-cycle/vehicle-cycle basis.

Credit: Argonne GREET Model

This detailed spreadsheet provides a template to model the cost of producing microfab wafers.

Credit: University of California, Berkeley

This model by Doug Powell at the MIT Photovoltaic Research Lab provides structure to assess the cost of producing solar photovoltaics, highlighting capital expenditure and ways to reduce it.

Credit: MIT PV Research Lab

This paper by Doug Powell at the MIT Photovoltaic Research Lab describes a model to assess the cost of producing solar photovoltaics, highlighting capital expenditure and ways to reduce it.

Credit: MIT PV Research Lab

This spreadsheet from Iowa State University provides a mdoel and framework to track the profitability of core ethanol production, based on the variability of corn production and price, and processing costs.

Credit: Iowa State University

This paper by R.A. Lawes examines the costs of layer deposition of principal high aspect ratio micromachining techniques used in microsystems/ MEMS fabrication, particularly silicon surface micromachining, wet bulk etching, wafer bonding, and other methods using cost model COST-MEMS. Factor explored include: increases in the wafer size, decreases in chip area, and the effect of shipping costs on overall expense.

Credit: [R. A. Lawes] (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/electrical-engineering)

The Modular LED Cost Model (LEDCOM) provides a method for analyzing the manufacturing costs of an LED package.

This paper by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) details a technoeconomic model that describes the costs of ethanol production to monitor competitiveness and market potential.

Credit: National Renewable Energy Laboratory

This spreadsheet by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) details a technoeconomic model that describes the costs of ethanol production to monitor competitiveness and market potential.

Credit: National Renewable Energy Laboratory

This spreadsheet models the cost of product of ethanol from corn based on various factors including capital and operation costs of equipment and material.

Credit: National Renewable Energy Laboratory

This spreadsheet, created by Mirko Previsic at Re Vision LLC for Sandia National Laboratory provides the background and details of the cost and economic assessment of the Tidal Current Device.

Credit: Mirko Previsic

This spreadsheet, created by Mirko Previsic at Re Vision LLC for Sandia National Laboratory provides the background and details of the cost and economic assessment of the Wave Energy Device.

Credit: Mirko Previsic

This spreadsheet, created by Burk Engineering LLC, provides the framework to model and understand Riboflavin fermentation using input capital and operating costs, in addition to a process model.

Credit: Burk Engineering LLC

This 2009 paper by Yangbo Du and John E. Parsons under the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT provides an updated look at the cost of nuclear power from an initial paper in 2003. The paper examines more recent plant builds in Japan and Korea, providing an updated leveled cost of electricity from nuclear power.

Credit: Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)

This spreadsheet accompanies the 2009 paper on the updated cost of nuclear power by Yangbo Du and John E. Parsons and provides the modeling behind the leveled cost of electricity calculations in the paper.

Credit: Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)

This spreadsheet model, created by Camanoe Associates in association with IBIS Associates and the MIT Material System Laboratory, breaks down the cost of production of a vehicle body. It is a part of the Ultralight Steel Auto Body (ULSAB) Programme which successfully used this modeling to generate a lighter, but equally safe car structure design.

Credit: Rich Roth