Text Version of the Benefit and Cost Categories Diagram

The diagram looks like a bulls eye with “Grid Services” in the middle.  Going outwards, the rings are “Financial”, “Security”, “Environmental”, and “Social”.  Each of the categories have text associated with them. 

Grid Services

• Energy
  • energy
  • system losses
• Capacity
  • generation capacity
  • transmission & distribution capacity
  • DPV installed capacity
• Grid Support Services
  • reactive supply & voltage control
  • regulation & frequency response
  • energy & generator imbalance
  • synchronized & supplemental operating reserves
  • scheduling, forecasting, and system control & dispatch

Financial Risk

• fuel price hedge
• market price response

Security Risk

• reliability & resilience

Environmental  

• carbon emissions (CO₂)
• criteria air pollutants (SO₂, NO_x, PM)
• water
• land

Social

• economic development (jobs and tax revenues)