PVUSA Kerman costs

This paper documents PVUSA's costs associated with a utility-grade 500-kW/sub p/ PV power system in Kerman, California, USA. Results are based on August 1991 through March 1993 actual costs, representing site development through PV system start-up, and April 1993 through June 1993 estimated costs associated with completing outstanding contractual items and system acceptance by PG&E. Costs in addition to the $9.00/W/sub p/ price for the turnkey PV system total $3.34/W/sub p/, for a PVUSA Kerman cost of $12.34/W/sub p/. As a PV grid-support application validation, PVUSA Kerman has research costs. If PVUSA Kerman were not a research project and if the site, schedule, and infrastructure were optimized, preliminary analysis indicates that the $3.34/W/sub p/ might have been reduced to around $2.20/W/sub p/.<>