Projected Costs of Generating Electricity 2010

This report on electricity generating costs presents the latest data available for a wide variety of fuels and technologies, including coal and gas (with and without carbon capture), nuclear, hydro, onshore and offshore wind, biomass, solar, wave and tidal as well as combined heat and power (CHP). It provides levelised costs of electricity (LCOE) per MWh for almost 200 plants, based on data covering 21 countries (including four major non-OECD countries), and several industrial companies and organisations. For the first time, the report contains an extensive sensitivity analysis of the impact of variations in key parameters such as discount rates, fuel prices and carbon costs on LCOE. Additional issues affecting power generation choices are also examined.



Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of participating members of the Expert Group
Executive summary
Part I. Methodology and Data on Levelised Costs for Generating Electricity
Chapter 1. Introduction and context
Chapter 2. Methodology, conventions and key assumptions
Chapter 3 Technology overview
Chapter 4. Country-by-country data on electricity generating costs for different technologies
Part II. Sensitivity analyses and boundary isues
Chapter 5. Median case
Chapter 6. Sensitivity analyses
Chapter 7. System integration aspects of variable renewable power generation
Chapter 8. Financing issues
Chapter 9. Levelised costs and the working of actual power markets
Chapter 10 Carbon capture and storage
Chapter 11. Synthesis report on other studies of the levelised cost of electricity
Annex 1. Issues concerning data from non-OECD countries and assumptions for the electricity generating cost calculations
Annex 2. List of abbreviations