How much does biomass and windpower cost?
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at
3:11 pm
How much does it cost for one wind power turbine and the biomass fuel?
Filed under: Wind Power
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For Biomass…because biomass plants typically are small — usually less than 50 megwatts in capacity, or one-tenth the size of a conventional fossil-fuel power plant — equipment costs are high relative to the amount of power produced. That, in turn, makes generating costs somewhat high — currently, about 5 cents to 10 cents a kilowatt hour without subsidies…
For Wind…production costs at the best on-shore sites have dropped as low as 3 cents to 4 cents per kilowatt hour, but are more typically 6 cents to 9 cents, not counting subsidies…
The five least expensive renewable energy resources are either Geothermal or Biomass. Although wind is a variable resource, there are other inexpensive potential sources or renewable electricity that are easy to integrate into the grid.
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