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A Trillion-Dollar Appetite for Electricity

TABLE:

Range of costs to deliver 1 kilowatt of power in developing countries

Cost Item World Bank-Low World Energy
Conference-High
Coal mining and transport $55/kW $126/kW
Generation $1 211/kW $2 770/kW
Capacity factor 50% 50%
Transmission and
distribution loss
15% 15%
Capacity needed 2.36kW 2.36kW
Firm kW $2 858/kW $6 537/kW
Transmission and
distribution
$625/kW $2 770/kW
Capacity factor 75% 75%
Capacity needed 1.57kW 1.57kW
T&D capacity $981/kW $4 349/kW
Other capital $363/kW NA
Total cost $4 257/kW $11 012/kW

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