- Cost Of A 600 Kw Wind Turbine Is 550000 Other Initial Costs Including That For Installation And Grid Integration Are 1 (58.33 KiB) Viewed 11 times
Cost of a 600 kW wind turbine is $ 550000. Other initial costs including that for installation and grid integration are 30% of turbine cost. Useful life of the system is 20 years. Annual operation and maintenance costs plus the land rent come to 3.5% of the turbine cost. Calculate the NPV and COE for the turbine when it is installed at a site having a capacity factor of 0.25. The real rate of interest may be taken as 5%. Illustrate the effect of capacity factor on cost/kWh in the above example. If a utility company buys the generated electricity at a rate of $ 0.1/kWh, find out the break-even capacity factor Answers LCOE = 0.134$/kWh CF = 0.335 required