PVUSA Kerman costs

Author

Jennings, Christina ; Candelario, Tammie ; Bhatnagar, Samir ; Farmer, Brian ; Reyes, Antonio ; Shipman, Dan ; O´Brien, Kevin

Author_Institution

Pacific Gas & Electr. Co., San Ramon, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

10-14 May 1993

Firstpage

1134

Lastpage

1139

Abstract

This paper documents PVUSA´s costs associated with a utility-grade 500-kW_p PV power system in Kerman, California, USA. Results are based on August 1991 through March 1993 actual costs, representing site development through PV system start-up, and April 1993 through June 1993 estimated costs associated with completing outstanding contractual items and system acceptance by PG&E. Costs in addition to the $9.00/W_p price for the turnkey PV system total $3.34/W_p, for a PVUSA Kerman cost of $12.34/W_p. As a PV grid-support application validation, PVUSA Kerman has research costs. If PVUSA Kerman were not a research project and if the site, schedule, and infrastructure were optimized, preliminary analysis indicates that the $3.34/W_p might have been reduced to around $2.20/W_p

Keywords

costing; economics; photovoltaic power systems; project engineering; 500 kW; PV power system; USA; costs; development; research; turnkey project; Code standards; Contracts; Costs; Design engineering; Engineering management; Power engineering and energy; Project management; Proposals; SCADA systems; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1993., Conference Record of the Twenty Third IEEE

Conference_Location

Louisville, KY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1220-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1993.346964

Filename

346964