Study of economic viability of 200 MW solar chimney power plant in Rajasthan, India

Author

Akhtar, Zahid ; Rao, K.V.S.

Author_Institution

Centre for Energy & Environ., Rajasthan Tech. Univ., Kota, India

fYear

2014

fDate

16-17 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

88

Abstract

This paper presents an economic viability of solar chimney power plant for 200 MW capacity, in Rajasthan India. Estimation of quantity of different materials required and capital cost for construction of 200 MW solar chimney power plant is done. Based on capital cost, operation cost and maintenance cost, levelized electricity cost for solar chimney power plant is calculated and compared with the other power plants based on conventional energy resources. Finally effect of interest rate, inflation rate and number of working hours of the plant on levelized electricity cost is analyzed.

Keywords

costing; maintenance engineering; power generation economics; solar power stations; Rajasthan India; capital cost operation cost; economic viability; energy resource; levelized electricity cost analysis; maintenance cost; power 200 MW; solar chimney power plant; Coal; Concrete; Generators; Glass; Power conversion; Silicon; Steel; Economic analysis; Levelized electricity cost; Solar chimney power plant;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Non Conventional Energy (ICONCE), 2014 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kalyani

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3339-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICONCE.2014.6808689

Filename

6808689