03-01-2019, 02:21 PM
From your slide:
Certain Alternative Energy generation technologies are cost-competitive with conventional generation technologies under some scenarios; such observation does not take into account potential social and environmental externalities (e.g., social costs of distributed generation, environmental consequences of certain conventional generation technologies, etc.), reliability or intermittency-related considerations (e.g., transmission and back-up generation costs associated with certain Alternative Energy technologies)
And from page 4 of the PDF.
"(1) Analysis excludes integration (e.g., grid and conventional generation investment to overcome system intermittency) costs for intermittent technologies."
In other words, the numbers on your slide showing that solar and wind are competitive are the nameplate generation numbers, and not real-world operating costs.
Certain Alternative Energy generation technologies are cost-competitive with conventional generation technologies under some scenarios; such observation does not take into account potential social and environmental externalities (e.g., social costs of distributed generation, environmental consequences of certain conventional generation technologies, etc.), reliability or intermittency-related considerations (e.g., transmission and back-up generation costs associated with certain Alternative Energy technologies)
And from page 4 of the PDF.
"(1) Analysis excludes integration (e.g., grid and conventional generation investment to overcome system intermittency) costs for intermittent technologies."
In other words, the numbers on your slide showing that solar and wind are competitive are the nameplate generation numbers, and not real-world operating costs.