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

Table 3

The characteristic parameters of candidate nonnuclear PPs assumed in this study [67–73] ⁽¹⁾.

Power plant	Region	Construction time	Efficiency	Lifetime	Capacity factor	Capital cost	Variable O&M cost	Fixed O&M cost
		(yr)	(%)	(yr)	(%)	(U$/kWe)	(U$/MWh)	(U$/kWe/yr)
A-CC-PP	East, west	2	58	35	80	891	0	22.3
A-GT-PP	South	2	43	35	90	546	0	16.4
A-ST-PP	Center, east	2	42	25	90	874	0	17.5
WT-PP	West	1	27	25	50	6831	0.4	307.4
WD-PP	West, east	2	50	25	42	1198	0.1	28.7
GH-PP	South	2	15	40	65	6038	0	92
SL-PP	PV center, east, west	1	22	30	25	1021.6	0	23
	CSP center, east, west	1	40	25	34	630	0	14.5
CL-PP	East	2	43	40	80	1725	0	23
PSH-PP	West	2	80	50	47	1408	0	25

(1) Currency exchange rate of 1 € euro = 1.15 U$ is applied based on the conversion assumed in the MESSAGE tool.