i am seeking numbers if a format that is comparable with other technologies: e.g. $ / kW, $ / kWh energy storage capacity, $ /
MWh of electricity supply, etc in a way that is directly comparable with the figures on the Electricity Supply Association web site I provided in the previous link.
Not exact matches
In December, a competitive
electricity -
supply auction in Alberta yielded the lowest - ever price paid for wind energy in Canada (weighted average
of $ 37 /
MWh) and also made wind energy the lowest - cost option for new
electricity generation in the country.
Installed along the coast
of Victoria (Portland), 362 km South West
of Melbourne, this 19 MW farm will produce 75000
MWh / year (with a producibility factor
of 50 %) and
supply electricity to 14,000 Australian homes.
If wind operated at 30 %
of capacity and solar at 15 % they could have produced 986,000
MWh of intermittent
electricity or enough to
supply about 220,000 average Ontario households for the six months in that report.
The Sunraysia Solar Farm is set to begin construction later this year; in addition to the PPA with UNSW, energy generated on the farm will also fulfil a deal that Maoneng inked with
electricity retailer AGL in December 2017 to
supply 800,000
MWh of renewable energy annually for 15 years.
1) default scenario, central estimates (most likely values) for all inputs, nuclear not permitted, in 2050: renewables
supply about 40 %
of electricity, wholesale cost
of electricity (in 2013 $) = $ 130 /
MWh CO2 - e emissions from
electricity = 80 Mt / a
This AGL operated landfill extracts methane - rich gas from decomposing organic waste to generate 7,500
MWh of electricity per annum, enough to
supply more than 1,100 homes.