IEA POWER REPORT
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLCOAL-fired power plants are amongst the cheapest to build and operate in the world, a new International Energy Agency (IEA)/Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) report has claimed. Taking account of some investment fees and charges, generation costs for coal fired power stations range between US$25 and US$50 per MWhour in electricity produced. Investment costs represent around one third of this, operation and management 20% and fuel 45%. By contrast, natural gas-fired plants cost (assuming the same financial charges) between US$37 and US$60 per MWhour, ...
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