Value chain · CLM-0374
Low confidence
The evidence behind this statement is thin, indirect or second-hand. Read it as a lead to check, not as a settled finding.
In plain terms
NASA's own best-case space solar power scenario, if several separate improvements all happen together, converts to roughly 33 to 154 pounds per megawatt-hour on the same basis as the other studies -- broadly similar to the UK and European baseline studies' figures, not to NASA's own baseline figures.
The claim as recorded
NASA OTPS's own multi-variable "competitive" sensitivity (0.03 USD/kWh RD1, 0.08 USD/kWh RD2, FY2022 USD, 3% discount rate, 30yr life) restates via the CRF approximation (no bottom-up model exists for this specific bundled scenario) to GBP33.1/MWh (RD1) and GBP88.3/MWh (RD2) at 3% real, 20yr, and GBP57.9/MWh (RD1) and GBP154.4/MWh (RD2) at 10% real, 20yr.
Scope and limits
This is NASA's own stated best case, stacking five or six simultaneous, individually under-specified improvements (the report's own lists differ; CLM-0124's limits) -- not a forecast that this combination will occur, and should never be quoted without that context.
What it assumes
Discount rate and system life ASSUMED unchanged from NASA's baseline run, since the source's own sensitivity table does not vary these (CLM-0249); the CRF approximation used here (not a full bottom-up rebuild) was validated to within about 25-30% error at this scale of rate/life change (restate-lcoe.py Section 2, Check B).
Where it comes from
This is the project's own working, shown in full:
restate-lcoe.py trace, CLM-0124-restate-RD1/RD2 sections.
Basis: GBP2024, 20-year asset life, 3% and 10% real discount rate
Related records
- Answers question
- QST-004 not published in this release
Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-0374
CLM-0374, Energy Aperture, as of 2026-09.
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