Project Viability definition
Examples of Project Viability in a sentence
The implementation of the Project Viability Calculator as a screening tool for use in the evaluation of Offers has brought several advantages: • The Calculator is a step in the direction of more standardized evaluation of viability across all three IOUs. • The Calculator provides a broader set of criteria by which projects are assessed than was the case with PG&E’s prior approach to scoring viability.
Most of PG&E’s decisions to select for the short list Offers whose Project Viability Scores fell below its viability cutoff, on the basis of superior scores on attributes such as RPS Goals, supplier diversity, or technology diversity, fall into this category.
While the Project Viability Calculator score for this Offer fell below PG&E’s cutoff level, the gap between the score and the cutoff was within ▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ estimate of the standard error of the Calculator.
PG&E viability score The correlation of the IE and PG&E team’s scores using the Project Viability Calculator is poorer than that between valuation models.
If one accepts PG&E’s opinion about the viability of the two Offers (disregarding the PG&E team’s Project Viability Score for the first one), then their selection for the short list was entirely fair, reasonable, and consistent; if one accepts ▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ opinion, their selection would not be.
The scoring guidelines for the Project Viability Calculator do not appear to take such issues into account.
In screening Offers based on their proposed delivery points, PG&E chose to reject from the short list several projects that proposed to deliver at busbar points outside the CAISO or to interface points of the CAISO, regardless of their valuation or Project Viability Calculator score.
This feature of the Project Viability Calculator, however, has the effect of “letting the rich get richer” by favoring proposals from developers who have successful track records and disfavoring those who lack large generation project experience.
For example, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and the PG&E team scored Offers using the same Project Viability Calculator; in nearly all cases the scores differed, but relative rankings of Offers were similar overall.
This affords PG&E a certain degree of latitude in making decisions about how to use information about criteria such as Project Viability and RPS Goals and preferences such as service territory and on-line date in selecting Offers.