Power Plant Characteristics and Costs.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (140 pages)
- Energy Policies, Politics and Prices .
- Energy Policies, Politics and Prices .
Intro -- POWER PLANT CHARACTERISTICS AND COSTS -- POWER PLANT CHARACTERISTICS AND COSTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION AND ORGANIZATION -- TYPES OF GENERATING TECHNOLOGIES -- Electricity Demand and Power Plant Choice and Operation -- Generation and Load -- Economic Dispatch and Heat Rate -- Capacity Factor -- Utility Scale Generating Technologies -- Supercritical Pulverized Coal -- Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) -- Natural Gas Combined Cycle -- Nuclear Power -- Geothermal Power -- Wind Power -- Solar Thermal and Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Powe -- FACTORS THAT DRIVE POWER PLANT COSTS -- Government Incentives -- Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit -- Nuclear Energy Production Tax Credit3 -- Loan Guarantees for Nuclear and Other Carbon-Control Technologies -- Energy Investment Tax Credit -- Clean Coal Technologies Investment Tax Credit -- State and Local Incentives -- Capital and Financing Costs -- Construction Cost Components and Trends -- Financing Power Plant Projects -- Fuel Costs -- Air Emissions Controls for Coal and Gas Plants -- Conventional Emissions -- Carbon Dioxide -- CO2 Removal for Pulverized Coal and Natural Gas Plants -- CO2 Removal for IGCC Coal Plants -- CO2 Allowance Costs -- FINANCIAL ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY AND KEY ASSUMPTIONS -- ANALYSIS OF POWER PROJECT COSTS -- Case 1: Base Case -- Case 2: Influence of Federal and State Incentives -- Case 3: Higher Natural Gas Prices -- Case 4: Uncertainty in Capital Costs -- Case 5: Carbon Controls and Costs -- POWER GENERATION TECHNOLOGY PROCESS DIAGRAMS AND IMAGES -- Pulverized Coal -- Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Coal (IGCC) -- Natural Gas Combined Cycle -- Nuclear Power -- Wind -- Geothermal -- Solar Thermal Power -- Solar Photovoltaic Power -- ESTIMATES OF POWER PLANT OVERNIGHT COSTS -- ESTIMATES OF TECHNOLOGY COSTS AND EFFICIENCY WITH CARBON CAPTURE. FINANCIAL AND OPERATING ASSUMPTIONS -- LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INDEX.
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Electric power-plants -- United States. Electric power-plants -- United States -- Cost of operation. Electric power-plants -- United States -- Design and construction. Electric power production -- United States -- Forecasting.