Windpower transmission costs study
Posted by Allan on February 11th, 2009A new study by researchers in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division analyzes the costs of building transmission lines for wind energy. Andrew Mills and Ryan Wiser, and consultant Kevin Porter found, by analyzing 40 transmission studies for new power projects, that for the majority of projects, the cost of building new transmission lines to distribute wind power to the grid was about 25 percent of the current $2,000 per kW cost of building a wind project.
Download the study here:
http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/ems/reports/lbnl-1471e.pdf