Technology

Size (Megawatts)

Capital Costs
(1997 Dollars per Kilowatt)

Variable O&M Costs
(1997 Mills per Kilowatthour)

Fixed O&M Costs
(1997 Dollars per Kilowatt)

1st-of-a-Kind

nth-of-a-Kind

Scrubbed Coal

400

1,093

1,093

3.33

23.03

Integrated Gas Combined Cycle

428

1,606

1,091

0.79

32.13

Gas/Oil Steam Turbine

300

1,004

1,004

0.51

30.70

Conventional Gas/Oil Combined Cycle

250

445

445

0.51

15.35

Advanced Gas/Oil Combined Cycle

400

575

405

0.51

14.23

Conventional Combustion Turbine

160

329

329

0.10

6.35

Advanced Combustion Turbine

120

461

325

0.10

9.01

Fuel Cells

10

2,146

1,458

2.05

14.74

Advanced Nuclear

600

2,371

1,570

0.41

56.29

Biomass

100

2,205

1,448

5.32

44.00

Municipal Solid Waste

30

N/A

5,892

5.53

0.00

Geothermal

50

N/A

1,831

0.00

85.90

Wind

50

1,109

776

0.00

25.92

Solar Thermal

100

2,904

1,907

0.00

46.58

Solar Photovoltaic

5

4,162

2,903

0.00

9.82

Source: Energy Information Administration, Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 1999, DOE/EIA-0554(99) (Washington, DC, December 1998).