Power plant characteristics and costs / / Stan Kaplan
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| Autore: |
Kaplan Stan <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Power plant characteristics and costs / / Stan Kaplan
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 621.31/210973 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | "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. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Power plant characteristics and costs |
| ISBN: | 1-61122-346-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824204703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Energy Policies, Politics and Prices