The Cost of Electricity is an essential tool for any researcher or practitioner seeking to establish the economic and environmental cost of power generation, and thereby to analyse the economic feasibility of power systems. Chapters cover capital cost, fuel cost, levelised cost, subsidies and tariffs, lifetime emission analysis, net energy analysis, traditional generation costs and renewable generation costs. The work is based on published analyses of generation costs and generation cost predictions from trusted organisations such as the US Energy Information Administration and the IEA. Chapters proceed in a logical manner through cost factors before concluding with the current and future cost of electricity generation.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Chapter 1. The cost of electricity, an overview - p. 1 7. Chapter 2. The power generating technologies - p. 9 8. Chapter 3. Electricity networks - p. 33 9. Chapter 4. Fuel costs - p. 43 10. Chapter 5. The capital cost of a power plant - p. 59 11. Chapter 6. Lifecycle analyses for fuels and power generation technologies - p. 87 12. Chapter 7. Structural issues - p. 99 13. Chapter 8. Distorting factors: subsidies, externalities and taxes - p. 105 14. Chapter 9. The cost of electricity - p. 117 15. Index - p. 137
The Cost of Electricity is an essential tool for any researcher or practitioner seeking to establish the economic and environmental cost of power generation, and thereby to analyse the economic feasibility of power systems. Chapters cover capital cost, fuel cost, levelised cost, subsidies and tariffs, lifetime emission analysis, net energy analysis, traditional generation costs and renewable generation costs. The work is based on published analyses of generation costs and generation cost predictions from trusted organisations such as the US Energy Information Administration and the IEA. Chapters proceed in a logical manner through cost factors before concluding with the current and future cost of electricity generation.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Chapter 1. The cost of electricity, an overview - p. 1 7. Chapter 2. The power generating technologies - p. 9 8. Chapter 3. Electricity networks - p. 33 9. Chapter 4. Fuel costs - p. 43 10. Chapter 5. The capital cost of a power plant - p. 59 11. Chapter 6. Lifecycle analyses for fuels and power generation technologies - p. 87 12. Chapter 7. Structural issues - p. 99 13. Chapter 8. Distorting factors: subsidies, externalities and taxes - p. 105 14. Chapter 9. The cost of electricity - p. 117 15. Index - p. 137
