Comments on: World’s Largest Wave Turbine Gets New Grant from Australian Government http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/#comment-129154 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:07:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39732#comment-129154 I’m not Giles, and you’re probably asking about prices in Australia, but let me show you this really excellent source for US prices…

http://en.openei.org/apps/TCDB/ 

Click on LCOE and you can see both historical and projected prices.

]]> By: melissa taylor http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/#comment-129149 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:36:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39732#comment-129149 giles, can you direct me to the best source of information about the capital and operating cost per kwh for solar and wind , kind regards melissa

]]> By: Marcacci Communications http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/#comment-129103 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:00:15 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39732#comment-129103 […] recently committed $10 million to help bring two new wave energy systems to market, including the world’s biggest wave energy turbine, a 250-kilowatt (kW) full-scale pilot […]

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/#comment-125836 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39732#comment-125836 Lol. Believe me, I’ve been there. :D

]]> By: Ronald Brak http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/#comment-125699 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:42:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39732#comment-125699 I meant NOT $2,400 a watt.  I’m gonna stop trying to write now.

]]> By: Ronald Brak http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/#comment-125698 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:41:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39732#comment-125698 That’s $2.40 a watt or $2,400 a kilowatt, $2,400 a watt.  Sorry.

]]> By: Ronald Brak http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/#comment-125697 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39732#comment-125697 In Australia, depending on location, we build new wind at about $2,400 a watt or under $7,500 per average kilowatt of output.  With Australia’s high capital costs this very roughly comes to about 8 cents a kilowatt-hour given Australia’s high capital costs.  Coal is now about six cents a kilowatt-hour with only a small portion of its externalities factored in, Given Australia’s sunny climate and current PV prices, we will end up with a lot more solar capacity than wind, but we certainly don’t pay as much for wind as you suggest.

]]> By: Ftp http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/03/worlds-largest-wave-turbine-gets-new-grant-from-australian-government/#comment-125632 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=39732#comment-125632 Aussies ROCK!  BTW….wind power does NOT cost 2 per watt….everytime you replace a rotor, you add almost a million, so over the projected lifetime of the entire unit, the rotor expense has at least quadrupled the cost per MW…..it costs 12 to 18 cnts a kwh for a typical 5mw turbine…..commercial solar is available for $3 per watt (3 million per MW)

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