Cost Trends of Renewable Energy Technologies for the Power Generation

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Cost Trends of Renewable Energy Technologies for the Power Generation

Title Cost Trends of Renewable Energy Technologies for the Power Generation
Author GIZ
Year 2011
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Document Type Study & Report
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Abstract Unlike conventional power plants, whose electricity generation costs have become dominated by fuel costs (with the exception of nuclear power), the key aspects determining the costs of renewable systems are their investment cost and natural resource availability – such as solar irradiation, the wind resource or the availability of organic matter for biomass systems.