Does $0.77m per MW describe plant capacity or realized output? Is that a national average or is that for a particular geography?
Looking at some more modern projects and it is actually looking pretty good. I don't know how to account for unused capacity as it seems most PV util setups use about 30% of their capacity (do you just multiply the cost by 1.7?)
Looking at some more modern projects and it is actually looking pretty good. I don't know how to account for unused capacity as it seems most PV util setups use about 30% of their capacity (do you just multiply the cost by 1.7?)
Case 1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karap%C4%B1nar_solar_power_pla...
2023 Turkey - 1300MW capacity and a construction cost of 1.3b USD puts it at ~ $1m/MW capacity which is incredible.
Case 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Signal_Solar
2018 USA - construction cost of $1.1b (maybe) and a capacity of 615MW so ~1.8m per MW
Case 3 (China nuclear)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fangjiashan_Nuclear_Power_Plan... is ~ 1.8m USD per MW capacity if we can trust their numbers.
Assuming a utilization of 80% (like other nuclear plants) this seems at worst cost competitive?