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What is the cost of 1 MW solar photovoltaic array power plant?

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Question added by Rehbar Kohri , Sales/Marketing Executive , HDFC BANK Ltd
Date Posted: 2014/05/01
Yasir Ahmed
by Yasir Ahmed , CEO and Founder , RAYmaps

Assuming the cost of Solar Panels to be around $1/Watt the cost of Solar Panels is around $1 million for1 MW of energy generation. But Solar Panels generate energy for about6 hours daily. So for a24 hour system the energy generation would have to be four folds or $4 million. Furthermore there are costs in energy storage and conversion which are about2.5 times the Solar Panel cost. So roughly speaking the cost of the1 MW system is around $10 million.

Mohamed Elzubier
by Mohamed Elzubier , Technical Manager , BARBAR PLastics Industries Factory

Load Watts 1,000 Hours On/Day 12 Loss Factor 15.0% Panel Solar Efficiency % 17.0% Back-up time - days 1 Battery Dischareg limit 10.0% Inverter Effeciency 95.0% Consump. Wh/Day Before Controller 14,861 Battery Delivered Wh 14,861 Battery Wh Capacity 16,512 Battery Ah Required, @12V 1,376 Panel Wh Required 15,643 Panel Wp Required 2,235

Panel Area m2

 

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for such system the cost of solar supply system is USD4700 per1Kw load. The cost includes solar panels, batteries, controller and installation cost.

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Abhimanyu Mittal
by Abhimanyu Mittal , Project Engineer , Vikram Solar Pvt. Ltd.

INR6 Crore Only...

Abubakr Abdella Elhadi Abdella  Abdella
by Abubakr Abdella Elhadi Abdella Abdella , مهندس صيانة , المركز القومي لابحاث الطاقة

the cost of one watt about one

 

 

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