Electric Power Generation
The current and future projected cost of new electricity generation capacity is a critical input into the development of ENERGY PROJECTIONS and analyses. The cost of new generating plants plays an important role in determining the mix of capacity additions that will serve growing loads in the future. New plant costs also help to determine how new capacity competes against existing capacity, and the response of the electricity generators to the imposition of environmental controls on conventional pollutants or any limitations on greenhouse gas emissions.
The current and projected future costs of energy-related capital projects, including but not
limited to new ELECTRIC GENERATING plants, have been subject to considerable change in recent
years.
NoDoC electricity cost modeling includes both combined heat and power (CHP) technologies as well as a variety of distributed generation TECHNOLOGIES.
NoDoC cost estimates for each technology were developed for a generic facility of a specific size and configuration, and assuming a location without unusual constraints or infrastructure needs.
The following TECHNOLOGIES have been modeled in NoDoC cost simulations:
The current and projected future costs of energy-related capital projects, including but not
limited to new ELECTRIC GENERATING plants, have been subject to considerable change in recent
years.
NoDoC electricity cost modeling includes both combined heat and power (CHP) technologies as well as a variety of distributed generation TECHNOLOGIES.
NoDoC cost estimates for each technology were developed for a generic facility of a specific size and configuration, and assuming a location without unusual constraints or infrastructure needs.
The following TECHNOLOGIES have been modeled in NoDoC cost simulations:
| List of power generation technologies modeled by NoDoC | ||
|
TECHNOLOGY |
DESCRIPTION | COMMENTS |
| Advanced Pulverized Coal | 650 megawatt-electrical (“MWe”) and 1,300 MWe; supercritical; alladvanced pollution controltechnologies | Greenfield Installation |
| Advanced Pulverized Coal with Carbon Capture and Sequestration (“CCS”) | 650 MWe and 1,300 MWe; supercritical; all advanced pollution control technologies, including CCS technologies | Greenfield Installation |
| Conventional Natural Gas | 540 MWe; F-Class system | |
| Combined Cycle (“NGCC”) | ||
| Advanced NGCC | 400 MWe; H-Class system | |
| Advanced NGCC with CCS | 340 MWe; H-Class system | |
| Conventional Combustion | 85 MWe; E-Class turbine | |
| Turbine (“CT”) | ||
| Advanced CT | 210 MWe; F-Class turbine | |
| Integrated Gasification | 600 MWe and 1,200 MWe; F- Class-syngas system | |
| Combined Cycle (“IGCC”) | ||
| IGCC with CCS | 520 MWe; F-Class-syngas system | |
| Advanced Nuclear | 2,236 megawatt (“MW”); AP1000 | Brownfield Installation |
| PWR Basis | ||
| Biomass Combined Cycle | 20 MWe | Wood Fuel |
| Biomass Bubbling Fluidized | 50 MWe | Wood Fuel |
| Bed (“BFB”) | ||
| Fuel Cells | 10 MWe | |
| Geothermal | 50 MWe Dual Flash and Binary | |
| Municipal Solid Waste | 50 MWe | |
| (“MSW”) | ||
| Hydroelectric | 500 MWe | |
| Pumped Storage | 250 MWe | |
| Wind Farm – Onshore | 100 MWe | |
| Wind Farm – Offshore | 400 MWe | |
| Solar Thermal – Central Station | 100 MWe | |
