Affordability Strategy Tool and Calculator
Reduce electricity costs by up to 40% through accelerated deployment of low-cost clean energy and better use of existing infrastructure.
Choose a country and state, compare the 2035 rate path and savings mix, then adjust the strategy table below to see how faster clean-energy deployment, reuse of existing interconnection and corridors, and smarter distribution utilization change the affordability outcome.
Evaluate
Cost and deployment timeline reduction strategies
Compare the 2035 rate path first, then adjust how much of each strategy the state actually captures by 2035. The goal is to make the cost and emissions effect immediately visible, then connect each savings wedge to an action pathway below.
Pick a country and state. Read the cost wedge and savings donut first. Then use the strategy table below: each slider sets how much of that strategy’s practical 2035 potential is captured, from off to full build-out. The methods page explains the formula, and the references and review page shows the source audit and corrections.
Outputs
State affordability path
Cost reduction wedges, 2025 to 2035
Hover over a wedge to see the 2035 rate cut and annual savings tied to that strategy.
2035 annual savings mix
The donut shows total annual savings in 2035. Hover over each slice for category detail.
Strategies
Choose how much of each strategy is captured by 2035
The deployment control sets the share of each strategy’s modeled practical 2035 potential that is actually captured in the selected state. 0% means off, 50% is a middle case, and 100% means the model is using the full practical potential for that strategy.
| Category | Strategy | 2035 annual savings potential | Deployment advantage | Deployment level by 2035 |
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Methods
How the strategy savings are calculated
Each strategy savings estimate follows the same logic: start with the state’s 2035 status-quo rate, split it into generation, transmission, and distribution components, apply the strategy-specific cost-down factor to the exposed component, then scale that result by the deployment level you select. Strategy savings are capped by component so overlapping levers do not double-count the same cost bucket.
Official 2025 retail rate and a stressed 2035 status quo.
The calculator anchors to official U.S. retail-price data and CEA-grounded India tariff proxies, then builds a 2035 status-quo pathway with higher load and wires pressure.
Component cost × source-backed cost-down factor × deployment level.
Example: reconductoring only touches transmission cost, while VPPs affect generation first and then smaller transmission and distribution shares.
2035 rate cut × 2035 state electricity sales.
The donut translates each strategy bundle from rate savings into annual savings using the modeled 2035 electricity sales for that state.
The slider sets the share of practical 2035 potential captured.
50% means the state is capturing roughly half of the model’s practical potential for that strategy. 100% means the full practical potential is used.
Calculation flow
1
Build the 2035 status quo
Official 2025 state price plus a 2035 generation, transmission, and distribution path with stronger load growth and wires pressure.
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Assign exposed cost buckets
Each strategy is tied to the cost components it can realistically lower, such as transmission for reconductoring or distribution for off-peak load shaping.
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3
Apply source-backed reductions
Cost-down factors come from the playbook, surplus interconnection, reconductoring, VPP, and cost-benchmark evidence already cited across the site.
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Convert to rates, annual savings, and emissions
Summed component savings lower the 2035 rate path, annual savings follow from 2035 sales, and cleaner supply increases modeled clean share while reducing power-sector CO2.
Taking Action
Policies that unlock the faster, cheaper path
References
Sources referenced on this page.
Emissions Check
Compact power-sector emissions and clean-share view
This compact check sits at the end so the page stays focused on affordability first, while still showing whether the selected pathway moves the power sector toward an 80%+ clean share by 2035.
Power-sector emissions and clean share
Bars show power-sector CO2 and the line shows clean share against the 80% benchmark.