A CRITIQUE OF THE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC PRIORITIES TEXT 'POWER PLANT PERFORMANCE - NUCLEAR AND COAL CAPACITY FACTORS AND ECONOMICS'

摘要

The Council on Economic Priorities (CEP) has assembled capacity factor data on most U.S. nuclear and coal-fired units in operation, performed a regression analysis upon capacity factor as a function of intrinsic unit variables such as size and age, and attempted a comparison of the economics of typical nuclear and coal-fired units using the resultant fitted capac¬ity factors.1nThis report points out inadequacies in the CEP data base, the lack of predictive value in the results of the regression analysis and inconsistencies in the economic evaluation of nuclear and coal-fired units.