solar power costs
How much would it cost to build a Solar Power Plant?
OK so I’m in scince class right now and were doing a project on “Solar Power Plants”and we can’t find anything on them…so would anybody know on how much it would cost to build one?
This is a very open ended question.
It could be as little as $10. But this solar power plant would only produce enough energy to light a very small light bulb!!
It all depends on the power output of the power station. I would estimate that it would cost about 100 times what it costs to build a fossil fuel powered plant for each megawatt of power produced.
So, a 10GW (Giga Watt) oil fired power plant may cost $1billion to build, so a 10GW solar plant would cost about $100billion to build (and would probably take up 1000 times the land space required for the oil plant)
And they wonder why solar hasn’t caught on yet!
China reduces solar power costs with large-scale manufacturing
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