District Energy & Thermal Network Equipment worked example

Project Margin with project sell price or funded revenue of 310 $: a worked example in district energy & thermal network equipment

What does the result look like when project sell price or funded revenue reaches 310 $? The full calculation is worked below with real intermediate numbers. Use it when project margin in district energy and thermal network equipment needs a clean margin number for a district energy and thermal network equipment go / no-go review.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Project sell price or funded revenue: 310 $ (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 125)
  • Required project cost: 100 $ (unchanged)
  • Reference project revenue: 100 $ (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Project gross margin dollars = project sell price or funded revenue - required project cost) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 210 % for project margin, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 210 value for project gross margin dollars.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 310 value for project sell price or funded revenue.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 100 value for required project cost.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where project sell price or funded revenue sits at 125 $ and the headline result is 25 %, this scenario comes in 740% above the baseline at 210 %.
  • A figure at this level is achievable when project sell price or funded revenue is genuinely sustained, not just peaked for a shift. It is a gross-margin view: it ignores overhead, financing and the time value of money over a multi-year network build, so a healthy gross margin can still leave a thin net result.

Results at a glance

  • Project margin: 210 % (headline result)
  • Project gross margin dollars: 210 value
  • Project sell price or funded revenue: 310 value
  • Required project cost: 100 value

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Project Margin calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.