Comparing the Costs of Intermittent and Dispatchable Electricity Generating Technologies
Economic evaluations of alternative electric generating technologies typically rely on comparisons between their expected life-cycle production costs per unit of electricity supplied. The standard life-cycle cost metric utilized is the “levelized cost” per MWh supplied. This paper demonstrates that...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
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MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59468 |