LEADER 04082nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910824204703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61122-346-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000067704 035 $a(EBL)3018748 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000425835 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12101812 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425835 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10368493 035 $a(PQKB)11644624 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3018748 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3018748 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10661686 035 $a(OCoLC)847429687 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000067704 100 $a20090807d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPower plant characteristics and costs /$fStan Kaplan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNova Science Publishers$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (140 p.) 225 0 $aEnergy policies, politics and prices series 300 $a"This is an edited, excerpted and augmented edition of a United States Congressional Research Service publication, report order code RL34746, dated November 13, 2008 by Stan Kaplan"--Pref. 311 $a1-60741-264-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $aFINANCIAL AND OPERATING ASSUMPTIONS -- LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INDEX. 410 0$aEnergy Policies, Politics and Prices 606 $aElectric power-plants$zUnited States 606 $aElectric power-plants$zUnited States$xCost of operation 606 $aElectric power-plants$zUnited States$xDesign and construction 606 $aElectric power production$zUnited States$xForecasting 615 0$aElectric power-plants 615 0$aElectric power-plants$xCost of operation. 615 0$aElectric power-plants$xDesign and construction. 615 0$aElectric power production$xForecasting. 676 $a621.31/210973 700 $aKaplan$b Stan$f1947-$01630957 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824204703321 996 $aPower plant characteristics and costs$93969518 997 $aUNINA