Historical Costs of Coal-Fired Electricity and Implications for the Future

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

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Main Authors: McNerney, J, Farmer, J, Trancik, J
Format: Journal article
Published: 2010