What is the dollar cost of a megawatt wind turbine?
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at
4:44 pm
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 jim m asked:
The megawatt size wind turbine seems to be a standard so why not have the cost of these machines available to compare with other type of electric generators? |
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The turbine manufacturers do not seem to publish this info.
I suspect there are too many variables:
Cost of site preparation
Cost of tower
Cost to get local/county/state/EPA approval
Cost to run wires and for transformers and other electrical equipment
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In terms of the initial cost, just to purchase a commercial scale turbine, the usual price is roughly $1 million per megawatt of capacity. So, a GE 1.5 MW would cost around $1.5 million. Installation and development of the site would be additional costs.