Type of Costs to implement or maintain the project or measure. This may include several different costs.
Data Type:
Constrained List
Category:
Unit of Measure:
None
Sector:
Commercial, Residential, Multifamily
Cost Attribution
| List Options | Option Definition | Unit of Measure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising | Cost associated with advertising | None | |
| Before taxes | Cost without taxes | None | |
| Capital | Capital cost of the measure at the end of its useful life, in current year dollars. | None | |
| Commissioning | Commissioning costs are costs to ensure that the installed measure or project is performing as per the design intent. | None | |
| Cost | Generic cost | None | |
| Disposal and salvage costs | The net cost of disposing material or equipment that is being replaced or removed. In some cases the salvage value may exceed disposal costs, resulting in a negative value. | None | |
| Financing | The cost of financing for projects or measures that are funded over time through loans or alternative financing mechanisms | None | |
| First cost | First or initial cost | None | |
| Fixed | Costs that remains more or less unchanged irrespective of the size of the measure or a project | None | |
| General | None | ||
| Gross | Gross cost | None | |
| Health and safety | Cost associated with health and safety measures | None | |
| Implementation | Cost of implementation activity | None | |
| Incremental | Incremental cost | None | |
| Installation | Cost of installation activity | None | |
| Insurance | Costs for insuring the equipment or system | None | |
| Interest payment | Interest payment incurred periodically as part of debt service payment | None | |
| Labor | Costs of labor to implement the measure or project | None | |
| Maintenance | Costs to maintain the equipment that has been installed as part of the measure or a project | None | |
| Management and administration | Costs for managing and administrating the implementation of the project | None | |
| Margin | A different manifestation of markup, to cover non-project specific overheads | None | |
| Markup | Generally applied to energy or construction projects procured by the Federal government. The mark-up, usually a set percentage of the project implementation cost, is added to the project price to cover non-project-specific overheads such as general administration and marketing. | None | |
| Material | Costs of material needed to implement the measure or project | None | |
| MV | Measurement and verification costs are costs to evaluate the performance of a project or a measure | None | |
| Net | Net cost | None | |
| None | None | None | |
| Not applicable | Not applicable | None | |
| Operating | Costs incurred to operate the piece of equipment installed as part of the measure or project | None | |
| Other | Other | None | |
| Permits and licenses | None | ||
| Principal repayment | Principal repaid periodically as part of debt service payment | None | |
| Profit | Profit incurred by the project as part of implementing the measure or project. ESPC projects specify that ESCO's disclose that information as part of the itemized costs. | None | |
| Recurring | None | ||
| Replacement | Cost for replacing the equipment | None | |
| System | Cost associated with a system | None | |
| Taxes | Taxes incurred as part of implementing the measure or a project | None | |
| Total | Total costs to implement the measure or project | None | |
| Unit | Cost per unit, where unit can be Spatial Unit Type, Resource, other | None | |
| Unknown | Unknown | None |
Term ID: 1e02cc73-b700-429e-a4af-db4d04eb3efc
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