Depreciation and ITC Basis for Send-to-Excel with Equations#1808
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Spreadsheets look good.
Lots of help changes here - many non-financial - expected?
Also, SAM_api changes and Windows defaults updates committed to address failing GitHub Actions.
This seems like a good step for patch 2 and then the reserve account updates for the Fall release.
Yes -- 9b654fd includes cumulative Help revisions to date. (This is a downside of our system of comitting the final generated HTML files instead of the source files for Help & Manual. We could store XML source files on GitHub, but Help & Manual is not open source software, which limits our options for integrating it into our build process.) |
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@cpaulgilman The send to Excel looks good to me, but I'm not sure I agree with the current wording in the help. Specifically:
The highlighted line still describes the state before this PR. Net capital cost should be changed to "Total depreciation/ITC basis prior to allocation" |
Thank you for pointing that out. I corrected the descriptions of the IBI and CBI basis reduction for the Fall 2024 release: When Reduces Depreciation and ITC Basis is checked for an IBI or CBI, the depreciation and ITC bases are reduced by the full amount of the IBI or CBI. For the ITC, checking Reduces Depreciation Basis reduces the depreciation basis by 50% of the ITC amount as per IRS rules. |
Description
Update Excel workbooks for Send to Excel with Equations for FOM financial models to 1) report depreciation and ITC basis as separate variable and show how it is calculated, and 2) update Help to reflect those changes.
Fixes #1477
Goes with NatLabRockies/ssc#1178
Type of change
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