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4 Responses to “How much would it cost to build a Solar Power Plant?”

1. on 05 Jul 2009 at 5:19 am1Mr. J

   Approximately $5,876,908,087.67, that’s an approximation though.
   References :
   http://www.build-a-solar-plant.com

2. on 05 Jul 2009 at 6:06 am2it_is_my_life3478

   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!
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3. on 05 Jul 2009 at 6:35 am3roderick_young

   Try looking up "Kramer Junction" for an example of a solar power plant. You can use Google, but here’s one example:

   http://www.solel.com/products/pgeneration/ls2/kramerjunction/

   That plant uses solar thermal energy to turn conventional turbines.

   If you’re looking for data on photovoltaic power, a utility scale plant is probably going to run around $6 a watt today, but expect panel prices to drop up to 25% in the coming year. So a 1 GW plant, a typical size by the way, would cost $6 billion. [Ironically, that first guy who gave a flip answer is pretty close.] Compare this to $1.3 billion for a coal-fired plant of the same size. For costs, see this link:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_plant
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4. on 05 Jul 2009 at 7:17 am4Tommy

   It cost less than $200.
   See

   http://www.solarpowerworldinfo.com/make-power-at-home/
   
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