Let's pretend Belgium have the gas available,
They could buy 2 1000 MW CCPP for about $476m each for a total of $952m $US, or 718.9 Euro. These 60% efficient plants are extremely fast to ramp up to power, like these ones......
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...=yTp_3Z5NAOMH2FnGkW_SDA&bvm=bv.73612305,d.c2E
..or conversely they could spend the same 718.9m Euro on 27650 Bluegen units, that would provide 55.3Mw of power at roughly the same efficiency in the beginning, but have a reduction in efficiency as the stacks degraded much faster than the CCPP does.
2Gw vs 55.3Mw for the same spend, chalk and cheese and why it is ridiculous to talk about these BlueGens for providing the necessary power instead of these nuclear stations. BTW the 55.3Mw for the BlueGen is provided they run at 2Kw/h, which is not at peak efficiency. Plus if you ran the CCPP at 'lifetime' rate, it is 36,000 EOH (Equivalent operating hours) between gas hot path inspections. How will the BlueGen stacks be going at 36,000 hrs??
Talking of these units replacing major generating plants is nonsense, the price is just out of this world too expensive. Even if they were 1/10 the price, they would STILL be uncompetitive, still 4 times overpriced!!
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