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Jan 1939
Cost of Energy Generation: Recapitulation
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 104, Issue 1
Abstract
The final paper of a Symposium presumably is useful if it summarizes the salient facts revealed in each paper and points out divergencies of opinion where they may be found. It can also properly present conclusions and some of t economic aspects of the subject-matter.
It was thought best to confine the Second Symposium on Power Costs to generation only, in order that the issue might not be confused. Later, it is hoped that the more complex problem of cost of transmission and distribution may form the subject of a Third Symposium.
A study of the papers comprising this Symposium indicates that the cost of generating power is indeed a variable quantity. This is a well-known fact which it should be unnecessary to discuss at length, but many recent statements emanating from sources that should be well informed indicate that the belief is abroad that power should be produced at a fixed price or that a “yardstick” of some kind can be set up to measure the cost of power.
It is clear that, considering all the variables, it must be a mere accident if the cost of power generated in any two or more stations is the same. No attempt has been made in this paper to summarize facts and conclusions separately.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 104 • Issue 1 • January 1939
Pages: 1139 - 1148
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© 1939 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1939
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
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W. F. Uhl, M.ASCE
Hydr. Engr., Chas. T. Main, Inc., Boston, Mass.
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