The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 2003

EMM Outputs

Inputs from NEMS

Exogenous Inputs

Electricity prices and price components
Fuel demands
Capacity additions
Capital requirements
Emissions
Renewable capacity
Avoided costs

Electricity sales
Fuel prices
Cogeneration supply and fuel consumption
Electricity sales to the grid
Renewable technology characteristics, allowable capacity, and costs
Renewable capacity factors
Gross domestic product
Interest rates

Financial data
Tax assumptions
Capital costs
Operation and maintenance costs
Operating parameters
Emissions rates
New  technologies
Existing facilities
Transmission constraints
Hydropower capacity and capacity factors