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Exactly, if you build a coal power plant today, the LCOE is calculated assuming the facility will run, let's say, for 30 years at 80% capacity.

But what happens if you have to stop your power plant in ten years because its (LCOE-estimated) cost is not competitive anymore?

So based on an biased LCOE computation, you sold your coal-based kWh at a third of it's real cost. Bad for the investor, bad for the climate.



Yeah but we shouldn't be comparing to coal - I already said this.




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