LEADER 04466nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910966092103321 005 20251116221025.0 010 $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(BIP)26942036 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 $a"This is an edited, excerpted and augmented edition of a United States Congressional Research Service publication, report order code RL34746, dated November 13, 2008 by Stan Kaplan"--Pref. 311 08$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. 330 $aThis study analyses the factors that determine the cost of electricity from new power plants. It offers projections of the possible cost of power from new fossil, nuclear, and renewable plants built in 2015, illustrating how different assumptions, such as the availability of federal incentives, change the cost rankings of technologies. 410 0$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-$01863930 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966092103321 996 $aPower plant characteristics and costs$94470632 997 $aUNINA