Sentences with phrase «plants costs assuming»

«The first SMRs are expected to be within the range of natural gas plants costs assuming appropriate private - public partnerships to help reduce technology risks and keep first - of - a-kind costs low.

Not exact matches

What the authors would like to see is the prospect of limited and expensive coal get a serious consideration; currently, most energy policy decisions, such as a focus on carbon capture and storage for coal plants, assume that coal will remain cheap enough to compensate for its added costs.

After all, these costs assume all emissions have been zeroed, and it's hard to zero the 4 GtCO2e per annum from pure agriculture, even without incidental emissions of planting, harvesting, processing, production, and transport.

Just recently, Duke was given authority by Bush's former OMB Director, Mitch Daniels to force their customers to assume the risk for the plant even though the utility commission did not require Duke to file anything near a current construction cost estimate for the 630 Megawatt plant they are seeking to build in what is already the largest concentration of coal fired capacity in the world, SW Indiana.

Assume typical nuclear plant of 1 GWatt capacity, 1 Euro = 1.32 USD (today's exchange rate), gives $ 2.97 billion cost.

If a reader has the $ / kW (stated), discount rate (assume 8 %), capacity factor (missing) and projected years of operation (stated) one can use my worksheet «A Financial Worksheet for Computing the Cost (US cents / kWh) of Solar Electricity Generated at Grid Connected Photovoltaic (PV) Generating Plants» that was published in the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, August, 2002, Vol.

«Studies so far assume that what we do will cost $ 600 per tonne — this is a study by the American Physical Society, and one study by MIT, Stanford and Berkeley even assumed $ 1,000 per tonne — for plants which are a) industrialised and b) have a much bigger scale, so not one thousand tonnes per year, but a factor one thousand more, so a million tonnes per year.

• Cost of electricity (harsh environment, short plant life, diesel backup generators, transmission line problems)-- assume $ 500 / MWh

• Annual cost of «CO2 Deposition plants» (including construction, operation and maintenance, accommodation facilities and fly - in - fly - out airports)-- assume $ 100 million per plant per year.

• CO2 to be sequestered per year = 4 billion tonne • Number of Deposition plants per year = 1,787 • Electricity required per year = 2.47 × 10 ^ 18 J = 686,000,000 MWh • Assumed electricity cost (including, diesel back up generation, transmission, harsh environment and short plant life) = $ 500 / MWh • Assumed density of CO2 snow in storage = 0.4 t / m ^ 3

That's assuming, of course, that state regulators will permit him to raise rates for customers to cover the costs of renewable power, cleaner coal or new nuclear plants.

While the fossil plant is competitive with wind power on the operating cost that assumes its depreciation is on a 100 % use basis.

«A comparison of the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) revealed that the LCOE of $ 148 per MWh for the first CSP plants installed in 2009 is competitive with the simple cycle combustion turbine at an LCOE of $ 168 per MWh, assuming that the temporary 30 percent Investment Tax Credit is extended.

At a cost of $ 34.26 per ton (per the EIA's 2006 figures), you're looking at $ 34.26 million a year, or about $ 685 million over the course of 20 years (the average life most power plants, both renewable and non-renewable are given as a base measurement), assuming no price increase over the next two decades... which is not a safe assumption to make.

Assuming that each power plant we built cost that amount, the total cost would be 23.07 trillion USD.