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Cost of Power Generation Technologies

The file (129 KB) will cover the following topics:

Type of power plant, Commercial Capacity, Overnight Capital Cost, Fixed O&M ($/kW/yr), Variable O&M (cents/kWh), Thermal Efficiency or Plant Heat Rate, Availability Factor, Load Factor, Construction Lead Time, Economic Life, Fuel Cost ($/GJ), Levelized Cost of Electricity ($/kWh).

Power Generation Technologies:

Oil – Gas Thermal
Reciprocating / Piston Engine
Small or High-Speed
Medium Speed
Large or Slow Speed
Combined Cycle – Waste Heat Boiler
Natural Gas – Simple GT
Aero-Derivative GT
With Recuperation
Humid Air Turbine (HAT)
Cascaded Humid Air Turbine (CHAT)
Heavy Frame GT
Natural Gas – Combined Cycle GT
Coal – Pulverized
Atmospheric CFB
Pressurized FBC
IGCC
IGHAT
Direct Coal-Fired Combined Cycle (DCCC)
Super critical & Ultra-Super critical Coal Comb.
Geothermal
Dry Steam (Vapor)
Flashed Steam (Single, Double)
Binary Cycle
Petrothermal (Hot Dry Rock)
Geothermal Preheat
Fossil Superheat
Nuclear Fission
Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), advanced
Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)
Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)
Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR)
Candu Reactor
High Temp. Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR)
Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor (GT-MHR)
Breeder Reactors
Nuclear Fusion
Hydro
Large
Pelton Turbine – 50-6,000 ft head
Francis Turbine – 10-2,000 ft head
Propeller Turbine – 10 – 300 ft head
Kaplan Turbine
Small / Mini
Micro
Pumped Hydro
Wind
Solar PV
Crystalline silicon
Thin film – Amorphous Silicon
Thin film – Indium Diselenide
Flat Plate
High Efficiency Multi Junction – IHCPV
Solar Thermal
Trough
Tower
Dish
Salt Pond (power + water)
Biomass
Direct Combustion
Co-firing with Coal
Biomass Gasification (BIGCC)
Municipal Waste
Pyrolysis
Landfill Gas (40 – 60% CH4)
Anaerobic Digestion (65% CH4)
Sewage Digestion
Fuel Cells
Alkaline (AFC)
Phosphoric Acid (PAFC)
Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM)
Direct Methanol
Molten Carbonate (MCFC)
Solid Oxide-GT (SOFC)
Solid Oxide-GT (SOFC-GT)
Energy Storage:
Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) – Huntorf
Large CAES
Small CAES
Above Ground CAES
Flywheel Systems
Utility Scale Batteries (USB)
Lead acid
Advanced
Stored Hydrogen
Superconduction Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES)
Ultracapacitors
Ocean Thermal
Claude (open cycle)
Controlled Flash Evaporation (open)
Anderson (closed cycle)
Ocean Wave
Oscillating Water Column (OWC)
Hydraulic Accumulator
High Level Reservoir
Float or Pitching Devices
Wave Surge or Focusing (”tapchan”)
Pendulor
Tidal Power
Single Pool
Modulated Single Pool w/ Pumped Hydro
Two Pool

Price: 3 USD


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