The cost of electricity /
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.
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Cost of Electricity
- The Cost of Electricity
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1
- The cost of electricity, an overview
- The lifetime of a power plant
- The main factors contributing to the cost of electricity
- Network factors
- Environmental and structural factors
- The cost of electricity
- 2
- The power generating technologies
- Coal-fired power generation
- Gas-fired power generation
- Piston engine-based power generation
- Hydropower
- Nuclear power
- Solar power
- Wind energy
- Biomass power generation
- Geothermal energy
- Others types of generating technology: marine power, power from waste and fuel cells
- Energy storage
- 3
- Electricity networks
- The traditional grid structure
- Deregulation and grid privatisation
- Electricity prices, electricity supply contracts and the spot market
- Wholesale and retail cost of electricity
- Distributed generation
- The smart grid
- Microgrids
- Electric vehicles
- Supergrids
- 4
- Fuel costs
- Combustion fuels
- Oil
- Natural gas
- Coal
- Biomass
- Hydrogen
- Nuclear fuel
- 5
- The capital cost of a power plant
- Project finance
- Power plant capacity factors
- Capital costs
- Coal plant capital costs
- Natural gas-fired power plant costs
- Nuclear power plant costs
- Fuel cell power plants
- The capital cost of hydropower
- Biomass power plant costs
- Geothermal power plant costs
- The capital cost of wind power
- Solar power capital costs
- 6
- Lifecycle analyses for fuels and power generation technologies
- Boundary conditions
- Lifecycle energy analyses
- Energy payback ratio
- Energy return on investment
- Lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions
- 7
- Structural issues
- Peak power
- Intermittency
- Smart grid technologies
- Spinning reserve and system stability
- Hydrogen.
- 8
- Distorting factors: subsidies, externalities and taxes
- Subsidies
- Externalities
- Taxes
- 9
- The cost of electricity
- Levelized Cost of energy model
- Electricity generating costs
- Coal-fired power plants
- Natural gas-fired combined cycle plants
- Open cycle gas turbine plants
- Nuclear power plants
- Onshore wind power plants
- Solar photovoltaic power plants
- Solar thermal power plants
- Geothermal power plants
- Other generating technologies
- Index
- Back Cover.