The Cost Of Electricity by Paul Breeze, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

The Cost of Electricityis an essential tool for any researcher or practitioner seeking to establish the economic and environmental cost of power generation, and thereby to analyse the economic feasibility of power systems. Chapters cover capital cost, fuel cost, levelised cost, subsidies and tariffs, lifetime emission analysis, net energy analysis, traditional generation costs and renewable generation costs. The work is based on published analyses of generation costs and generation cost predictions from trusted organisations such as the US Energy Information Administration and the IEA. Chapters proceed in a logical manner through cost factors before concluding with the current and future cost of electricity generation. Analyses the factors that contribute to the cost of generating electricity together with the presentation of historical cost trends and predictions for future costsExamines the environmental cost of power generation by lifecycle analysis, including carbon emissions impactReviews factors which distort the market cost of electricity | The Cost Of Electricity by Paul Breeze, Paperback | Indigo Chapters