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The true cost of coal fired power plant
European researchers who have spent years exploring those so-called external costs figure regular old coal plants actually cost an additional 9-17 cents per kilowatt hour (7-13 European cents)?that?s an extra two or three times the average cost of electricity in the U.S. Even the cleanest of coal plants still costs an extra 2 cents per kilowatt hour. And that, coincidentally, is the amount of subsidy support that wind power gets from the federal government to help close the cost gap - Read More
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Wind turbine investment cost break-up
Investment ('000 euros per MW), (% of total investment) - Turbine ex works (928), (75.6), Foundation (80), (6.5), Eelctric installation (18), (1.5), Grid connection (109), (8.9), Control system (4), (0.3), Consultancy (15), (1.2), Land (48), (3.9), Financial costs (15), (1.2), Road (11), (0.9) - Total - 1227. Calculations by the author based on selected data for European wind turbine installations - Read More
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Cost of wind turbines per unit - MW, KW etc
The cost of commercial wind turbines varies from $1 to $2 million per MW of nameplate capacity. Turbines 2 MW in size cost roughly $2.8 million installed capacity. Significant economies scale. Smaller farm or residential scale turbines cost less but they are more expensive per KW of energy. This would indicate a 10 kilowatt machine might cost roughly around $48,000. 100 kilowatts wind turbines would cost roughly $2,800 to $4,800 per kilowatt of capacity.
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Cost components of a wind turbine system, wind energy
The cost includes wind resource assessment, site analysis expenses, the freight of the turbine and its price, as well as tower, construction expenses, interconnection studies, utility system upgrades, protection, transformers, as well as metering equipment, operations, warranty, maintenance, repair, insurance, legal and consultation fees, etc.
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Offshore wind too expensive
Maine offshore wind farm would be very expensive— with optimistic assumptions. ...figures capital costs for the project could go as high as $4.5 billion a Gigawatt, a lot more than Mr. Pickens projects for his massive Texas wind farm. All in, the costs could come to $25 billion, or $5 billion a GW. That compares to upfront costs of about $600 million per gigawatt for old-fashioned coal-fired plants. (the link has muddled up MW and GW though!) - Read More
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Wind power costs about 8 c per KwH
As against 5 c for coal generated power (2008)
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