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<blockquote data-quote="JPKII" data-source="post: 16621728" data-attributes="member: 12867"><p>One of the market segments I cover is Medium Voltage Variable Frequency Drives. One of the industries we study closely is power generation. This helps us identify where we should be directing our sales efforts for new plants and for retrofits of existing plant. Below are some anecdotal costs to build various types of power plants. Keep in mind, this is just the cost to engineer, procure equipment, construct, and finance the plant. This is not an operating cost. </p><p></p><p>Additionally, the high-tension lines [USER=67454]@James Snover[/USER] mentioned above generally sell for about $1M per tower. If we needed 4 towers per mile and 20 miles of line (this is often hundreds of miles) that cost would be roughly $80M. This does not include the substations required off of the transmission lines to convert to distribution level voltages that are carried, typically, by a wooden pole into neighborhoods. </p><p></p><p>Wind: $1500-$1800/kW</p><p>Combined cycle gas plant (peaking plants): $800-$1000/kW</p><p>Solar: $1300-$1500 (some as high as $3000)/kW</p><p>Nuclear: $6,000-$8,000/kW</p><p></p><p>Fun side topic, our multi-state territory has 96 units currently operating. Ranging from 45 MW to 1300 MW in size (some of them are nukes). 27 of those units are scheduled to be closed within the next 5-ish years. In total our territory has 32,337 MW of generation capacity today. Within 5 years we are reducing capacity, those 27 units, by 14,322 MW. So nearly a 50% reduction in generation capacity. With no real plans of constructing new plants of any real size to offset this loss. Apparently pixiedust and unicorn farts will power all the newfound capacity we need for the electric car revolution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JPKII, post: 16621728, member: 12867"] One of the market segments I cover is Medium Voltage Variable Frequency Drives. One of the industries we study closely is power generation. This helps us identify where we should be directing our sales efforts for new plants and for retrofits of existing plant. Below are some anecdotal costs to build various types of power plants. Keep in mind, this is just the cost to engineer, procure equipment, construct, and finance the plant. This is not an operating cost. Additionally, the high-tension lines [USER=67454]@James Snover[/USER] mentioned above generally sell for about $1M per tower. If we needed 4 towers per mile and 20 miles of line (this is often hundreds of miles) that cost would be roughly $80M. This does not include the substations required off of the transmission lines to convert to distribution level voltages that are carried, typically, by a wooden pole into neighborhoods. Wind: $1500-$1800/kW Combined cycle gas plant (peaking plants): $800-$1000/kW Solar: $1300-$1500 (some as high as $3000)/kW Nuclear: $6,000-$8,000/kW Fun side topic, our multi-state territory has 96 units currently operating. Ranging from 45 MW to 1300 MW in size (some of them are nukes). 27 of those units are scheduled to be closed within the next 5-ish years. In total our territory has 32,337 MW of generation capacity today. Within 5 years we are reducing capacity, those 27 units, by 14,322 MW. So nearly a 50% reduction in generation capacity. With no real plans of constructing new plants of any real size to offset this loss. Apparently pixiedust and unicorn farts will power all the newfound capacity we need for the electric car revolution. [/QUOTE]
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