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LCOE

vp16
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26 Sep 2012 08:31 #887 by vp16

LCOE was created by vp16

I modelled a Solar Tower with 50 MW and design features as suggested by the optimization wizard and the different cost from published papers. I got 2 different results with fired PPA and with fixed IRR. However when I check the 2 options of allowing SAM to pick a debt fraction and also to pick PPA escalation rate I get LCOE real of 4.5 UScents/kwh which obviously does not look realistic. How could I understand this problem.?

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