The CRANE team launched its new quarterly webinar series, focusing on how to customize CRANE models in real-time, whether by using an existing technology or building one from scratch.

Step-By-Step Summary

Choose Your Starting point

Find an existing CRANE model that has similar solution unit emissions or a comparable incumbent market to your climate technology.

If you can’t find a suitable model, use the blank template feature to build one from scratch. Source all data from existing literature, industry reports, or another CRANE model.

Customize Your Units & Incumbent Market

• Update qualitative details (e.g., name, description, etc.), and define your sales units for impact measurement (e.g., Mt, kWh, etc.).

• Select an appropriate incumbent market that aligns with your climate solution.

Edit Incumbent & Solution Unit Emissions

• Review and update your solution and incumbent emissions data using credible sources (e.g., peer-reviewed studies).

• Pro tip: You can enter new values manually or copy-paste from a spreadsheet directly into CRANE.

• Ensure unit consistency when inputting emission factors.

• Adjust your uncertainty parameter.

Review Your Unit Impact

• Sanity check your unit impact by cross-referencing your emissions against existing literature (e.g., with published emissions ranges or percentage improvement estimates).

Adjust your SAM & SOM

• Review and edit your Serviceable Available Market (SAM), which represents the incumbent market size that your climate technology can target.

• Review and edit your Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) that your technology can realistically capture.

• Use diffusion parameters to model adoption over time (e.g., market saturation), and adjust your uncertainty parameter.

Review Your Impact Report

• Review your impact summary and graphical outputs showing your impact potential trajectories. Save and download your report in various formats.

For additional guidance, visit the CRANE Wiki or contact info@cranetool.org.