Energy Nrel Atb Cost Benchmarks

{
  "atbRelease": "2025 v1.0.0",
  "availableCases": [
    "R&D",
    "R&D + TC"
  ],
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:38:32.007Z",
  "count": 1,
  "crpYears": 30,
  "financialCase": "Exp",
  "metric": "LCOE",
  "note": "Values as published by NREL ATB (real dollars of the release's base year).",
  "rows": [
    {
      "name": "Utility PV - Class 5",
      "representative": true,
      "taxCreditCase": null,
      "techDetail": "Class5",
      "units": "$/MWh",
      "value": 36.1095,
      "year": 2030
    }
  ],
  "scenario": "Moderate",
  "source": "https://oedi-data-lake.s3.amazonaws.com/ATB/electricity/parquet/2025/v1.0.0/ATBe.parquet",
  "taxCredits": false,
  "technology": "UtilityPV"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/energy/nrel-atb-cost-benchmarks?metric=LCOE&scenario=Moderate&technology=UtilityPV&year=2030'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/energy/nrel-atb-cost-benchmarks?metric=LCOE&scenario=Moderate&technology=UtilityPV&year=2030' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.002 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.002" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.002 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev%2Fapi%2Fenergy%2Fnrel-atb-cost-benchmarks
const res = await pay("https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/energy/nrel-atb-cost-benchmarks?metric=LCOE&scenario=Moderate&technology=UtilityPV&year=2030");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.002 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.002"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/energy/nrel-atb-cost-benchmarks?metric=LCOE&scenario=Moderate&technology=UtilityPV&year=2030")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)