Solar Power plant - is it possible?

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Re: Solar Power plant - is it possible?

@Med911

Isnt the expense not offset by the amount saved from not having to buy expensive foreign oil ?

And doesn’t increased economic activity owing to increased generation also diminish some of the cost ? Industry may prefer to pay a higher price over having their factories go idle for hours on end.

The cost i quoted included the cost of foreign oil.

When you are evaluating cost you need to see how much money it costs to generate certain number of units over a period of time.

With fuel based your cost is spread over the period - say 20 years and it costs 18Rs. per Unit of electricity.

With Solar, you have a massive one time cost - and over the period of 20 years it costs 29 Rs. per Unit.

So in short - fuel based have periodical expense , while solar has one time expense. But if you compare total cost - Solar is very very expensive. Only benefit is lower carbon footprint and less dependency on oil - thats it. In terms of cash, solar has a long way to go before its cost is affordable for economy like ours.

Solar is ideal for off the grid areas and use at localized level - i.e. homes, or buildings. Massive concentrated generation is useless for country like ours.