Proposal

Estimated life in years

Gross output
Auxiliary use
Mining, water, waste equivalent
(MW/hr)

Coal Fired

Coal fired with

75% Geosequestration

Nuclear

Solar Tower

25
1000 MW/hr
50 MW/hr

25
1000MW/hr
200MW/hr

25
1000MW/hr
55MW/hr

60
200 MW/hr
5MW/hr

50 MW/hr
900
90.00%

150MW/hr
650
65.00%

130MW/hr
815
81.50%

0
195
97.50%

Design Cost
Test Plant
Materials/Equipment Cost
Construction Cost
Labor cost

$100,000,000
Not required
$700,000,000
$250,000,000
$250,000,000

$500,000,000
$500,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$500,000,000
$400,000,000

$750,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$500,000,000
$500,000,000

$150,000,000
$150,000,000
$400,000,000
$250,000,000
$90,000,000

Total capital Costs

$1,300,000,000

$2,900,000,000

$3,750,000,000

$1,040,000,000

$174,000,000.00
$300,000,000
$250,000,000
$150,000,000
$250,000,000

$225,000,000.00
$400,000,000
$250,000,000
$300,000,000
$375,000,000

$62,400,000.00
$0
$0
$250,000
$10,000,000

Net output (MW/hr)

Output efficiency
CAPITAL COSTS

OPERATIONAL COSTS
Interest @ 6%
$78,000,000.00
Fuel Cost
$200,000,000
Fuel/waste Disposal cost
$100,000,000
Water use (including mining process)
$100,000,000
Maintenance costs
$150,000,000

TOTAL COSTS INCLUDING MINIMUM PRICE FOR CARBON

C02 emissions including mining
Net C02 emissions (Tonne)
C02 cost at $50 per Tonne
Yearly running costs

1.35T per MW
11,826,000
$591,300,000
$1,219,300,000

0.6T per MW
5,256,000
$262,800,000
$1,386,800,000

0.4T per MW
3,504,000
$175,200,000
$1,725,200,000

0T per MW
0
$0
$72,650,000

Net yearly cost (life/capital) + running

$1,271,300,000

$1,502,800,000

$1,875,200,000

$89,983,333

Saleable MW produced in 1 year

Net cost per MW
Cost per kwh to produce
Current cost retail to consumer

5,694,000
$263.93
$0.26
$0.14

7,139,400
$262.66
$0.26
$0.14

1,708,200
$52.68
$0.05
$0.14

7,884,000
$161.25
$0.16
$0.14

Profit/Loss on installation
based on market rates of 0.14c
kw/h for 15 years
-$2,513,100,000 -$10,584,600,000

-$13,135,260,000 $2,237,470,000

Yearly cost including capital

repay
Life return

$1,193,300,000

$27,594,000,000 $19,929,000,000

$24,987,900,000 $14,348,880,000

Life cost

$29,832,500,000 $33,220,000,000

$41,255,000,000 $1,655,000,000

$1,328,800,000

$1,650,200,000

$27,583,333

Net return per annum

-$89,540,000

-$531,640,000

-$650,684,000

$211,564,667

Net return % per annum (No

finance)

-6.89%

-18.33%

-17.35%

20.34%

Combined Solar
tower and PV
panels

Geothermal steam

Wave Power

Concetrated
Solar PV

Parabolic
Concentrated
Solar steam

Concentrated
Solar Tower
(steam)

60
350MW/hr
10MW/hr

15
300MW/hr
15MW/hr

30
200MW/hr
10MW/hr

15
150MW/hr
5MW/hr

15
200MW/hr
5MW/hr

15
100MW/hr
5MW/hr

0
340
97.14%

15MW/hr
270
90.00%

10MW/hr
180
90.00%

0
145
96.67%

0
195
97.50%

2MW/hr
93
93.00%

$220,000,000
$250,000,000
$500,000,000
$350,000,000
$130,000,000

$250,000,000
$500,000,000
$550,000,000
$350,000,000
$200,000,000

$150,000,000
$250,000,000
$600,000,000
$350,000,000
$300,000,000

$150,000,000
$150,000,000
$450,000,000
$250,000,000
$190,000,000

$250,000,000
$250,000,000
$600,000,000
$250,000,000
$300,000,000

$150,000,000
$250,000,000
$550,000,000
$250,000,000
$200,000,000

$1,450,000,000

$1,850,000,000

$1,650,000,000 $1,190,000,000

$1,650,000,000 $1,400,000,000

$87,000,000.00
$0
$0
$250,000
$20,000,000

$111,000,000.00
$0
$30,000,000
$15,000,000
$50,000,000

$99,000,000.00
$0
$75,000,000
$0
$15,000,000

$71,400,000.00
$0
$0
$0
$25,000,000

$99,000,000.00
$0
$0
$5,000,000
$25,000,000

$84,000,000.00
$0
$0
$5,000,000
$25,000,000

0T per MW
0
$0
$107,250,000

0.15T per MW
394,200
$19,710,000
$225,710,000

0T per MW hour
0
$0
$189,000,000

0T per MW
0
$0
$96,400,000

0T per MW
0
$0
$129,000,000

0T per MW
0
$0
$114,000,000

$131,416,667

$349,043,333

$244,000,000

$175,733,333

$239,000,000

$207,333,333

2,978,400
$44.12
$0.04
$0.14

2,365,200
$147.57
$0.15
$0.14

1,576,800
$154.74
$0.15
$0.14

1,270,200
$138.35
$0.14
$0.14

1,708,200
$139.91
$0.14
$0.14

814,680
$254.50
$0.25
$0.14

$4,283,390,000

-$268,730,000

-$348,720,000

$31,420,000

$2,220,000

-$1,399,172,000

$44,416,667

$238,043,333

$145,000,000

$104,333,333

$140,000,000

$123,333,333

$25,018,560,000

$4,966,920,000

$6,622,560,000 $2,667,420,000

$3,587,220,000 $1,710,828,000

$2,665,000,000

$3,570,650,000

$4,350,000,000 $1,565,000,000

$2,100,000,000 $1,850,000,000

$372,559,333

$93,084,667

$75,752,000

$73,494,667

$99,148,000

-$9,278,133

25.69%

5.03%

4.59%

6.18%

6.01%

-0.66%

Wind Farms

25
200MW/hr
10MW/hr
0
190
95.00%

$100,000,000
Not required
$800,000,000
$300,000,000
$150,000,000
$1,350,000,000

$81,000,000.00
$0
$0
$0
$100,000,000

0T per MW
0
$0
$181,000,000
$235,000,000
1,664,400
$141.19
$0.14
$0.14

-$29,760,000

$154,000,000
$5,825,400,000
$3,850,000,000

$79,016,000
5.85%