Studies on Optimal Strategy to Adopt Nuclear Power Plants into Saudi Arabian Energy System Using MESSAGE Tool

Table 2

Total capacity of each type of technology with different fuel for each region in Saudi Arabia and relevant characteristic parameters as of 2015 [6, 63, 67].

Capacity (MWe)										Lifetime	Efficiency	Capacity factor	Investment cost	O&M cost
Fuel	Cr	D	G	HFO	Cr + D	G + D	HFO + Cr	G + HFO	HFO + D	(yr)	(%)	(%)	(U$/kWe)	Variable (U$/MWh)	Fixed (U$/kWe/yr)
ST-PP
East			3599	468		4471		568		40	38	70	1680	1.6	36.5
West				7801			7110		1191
Center		353		353
South					1020
Total		353	3599	8622	1020	4471	7110	568	1191
GT-PP
East	156	966	1869	600	3810	880	800			30	45	37.3	1180	4	11.2
West	48	771	2192		3383	1694	80
Center	180	3594	2555		4211	2916	0
South	72	2229	749		952	170	0
Total	456	7560	7365	600	12356	5660	880
CC-PP
East						7874			35	40	53.4	1010	3.3	19.9
West					1035	456
Center					846	515
South
Total					1881	8845
DG-PP
East		118								20	25	70	755	13.7	34
West		341		73.5
Center		16
South		218
Total		693		73.5