Sentences with phrase «coal units assuming»
Projected net present value of coal units assuming environmental retrofits, compared to typical national market electricity prices, 2015 - 2044.
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* For the comparison to existing or new NGCC, UCS assumes that the NGCC unit would run at the same capacity factor as the coal unit under consideration.
Assuming new wind or solar power resources at $ 40 / MWh, we calculate that the total capacity of uneconomic coal units in the Southeast rises from 8.1 GW (according to UCS) to 15.2 GW, and the savings from replacing all these units with wind or solar would rise to over $ 230 million annually.
Importantly, the UCS analysis represents a conservative estimate for the economic competitiveness of wind and solar resources, because it assumes that the new renewable resources would be built in the same geographic area as the existing coal fired generating units.
Considering only estimated US coal mortality per unit energy and assuming US nuclear plants are NOT any less hazardous than the worldwide average: