Economic Efficiency Assessment of Autonomous Wind/Diesel/Hydrogen Systems in Russia

<table>Electricity cost for the scheme in Figure <a href="../fig3/">3</a> at a fuel price of $1100/toe and with the load power of 50 kW (a) and 1000 kW (b) and prospective indices of electrolyzers, hydrogen tanks, and fuel cells. <svg height="11.375" id="M46" style="vertical-align:-0.1638pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 12.7375 11.375" width="12.7375" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg> is the average wind speed at a height of 10 m, <svg height="13.3" id="M47" style="vertical-align:-3.50804pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 10.2 13.3" width="10.2" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg> is the diesel price, DG is the diesel generator, WT are the wind turbines, and FC are the fuel cells.</table>

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Figure 9: Economic Efficiency Assessment of Autonomous Wind/Diesel/Hydrogen Systems in Russia 