Historical costs of coal-fired electricity and implications for the future

We study the cost of coal-fired electricity in the United States between 1882 and 2006 by decomposing it in terms of the price of coal, transportation cost, energy density, thermal efficiency, plant construction cost, interest rate, capacity factor, and operations and maintenance cost. The dominant...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McNerney, James, Doyne Farmer, J., Trancik, Jessika
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105416
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6305-2105