Comparison of Turkey’s Geographical Regions in terms of Stand-Alone PV System Design and Cost Parameters

Table 4

Comparison of studies in the literature in terms of UEC.

Ref. number	Authors	Year	Location	System life (years)	Discount rate (%)	Inflation rate (%)	System power (kWp)	UEC ($/kWh)
[19]	Nordin and Rahman	2015	Malaysia	25	6.85	2.8	1.40	0.34
[20]	Chel and Tiwari	2010	India	30	4	n/a	2.32	0.96 (0.8 €/kWh)
[21]	Roy and Kabir	2011	Bangladesh	20	10	n/a	0.4	1.046
							14	0.582
[22]	Ghafoor and A. Munir	2014	Pakistan	20	8	4	2	0.15
[23]	Kamalapur and Udaykumar	2010	India	25	n/a	n/a	0.14	0.258
[24]	Hassan et al.	2016	Iraq	20	9	3	3.1	0.51
[6]	Al-Karaghouli and Kazmerski	2009	Iraq	30	6	n/a	6	0.444
Used model in this article		2017	Turkey	25	18	12	1	0.11~0.15 (all-year sce.)
								0.24~0.37 (spring sce.)
								0.06~0.10 (summer sce.)
								0.33~0.46 (autumn sce.)
								0.45~0.60 (winter sce.)