Power plant characteristics and costs /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hauppauge, N.Y. :
Nova Science Publishers,
©2009.
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Colección: | Energy policies, politics and prices series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.