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Power - Geothermal power - 60,000 kW

Template assignment

Base case
  • Central grid connection
Proposed case
  • Project located in Iceland (nearest weather data is Reykjavik)
  • Flash geothermal power project
  • 400,000 kg/h of saturated steam at 770 kPa available
  • Availability is 97%
  • Steam temperature is 180°C
  • 8 kPa backpressure condensing operation
  • 77% turbine efficiency
  • Minimum capacity is 40.0%
  • Installed initial costs of $3,000/kW
  • Operating and maintenance costs of $0.02/kWh
  • Electricity price sold to grid at $0.06/kWh
Solution

The worked-out solution is the data file selected from within the RETScreen Project Database. The user automatically downloads the Project Database file while downloading the RETScreen software.