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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (365014)1/2/2008 5:44:47 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1571462
 
JF, > North America’s Largest Solar-Electric Plant Switched On

Time to do the math again.

The power output of the solar plant is 14 MW. Let's assume this is the average power output instead of the maximum (a very generous assumption indeed, given that average power is almost never advertised when solar panels are sold because it's impossible to estimate the variations in daylight).

Nelis AFB agreed to buy the power at 2.2 cents/kWh for 20 years. For a 14 MW plant, that amounts to $308/hr, or $54.0 million over 20 years.

What was the cost of constructing the plant? $100 million.

I read the comments which followed the article and it seems a lot of other readers picked up on that discrepancy as well.

Tenchusatsu
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