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Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis – 2021 Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135

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Author(s)

Priya Lavappa, Joshua D. Kneifel

Abstract

This is the 2021 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and renewable energy projects in federal facilities. It will be effective from the publication date to the publication of the 2022 edition. This publication supports the federal life-cycle costing methodology described in 10 CFR 436A and OMB Circular A-94 by updating the energy price projections and discount factors that are described, explained, and illustrated in NIST Handbook 135 (HB 135, Life-Cycle Costing Manual for the Federal Energy Management Program.)
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 85-3273-36
Report Number
85-3273-36
NIST Pub Series
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.85-3273-36
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Keywords

life cycle costing, building economics, energy efficiency, renewable energy, resilience
Sustainability, Energy efficiency, Conventional energy, Building economics, Building codes and standards and Alternative energy

Citation

Lavappa, P. and Kneifel, J. (2021), Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis – 2021 Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.85-3273-36, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=932226 (Accessed October 8, 2025)

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Created April 12, 2021, Updated November 29, 2022
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