User talk:Alqpr

Levelized Cost of Energy

The claim that LCOE is "the net present value of the generated electrical energy over the lifetime of a electricity generating plant" (which I hadn't realized also occurs in the short description) is certainly wrong in many ways. Firstly it is an attempt to define not the discounted market value of *all* the energy produced but the npv of the *costs* on a per unit basis. And it is indeed just an "attempt" as the decision to discount future power at the same rate as money is only one of many options (and probably not a good one as money depreciates with inflation but amounts of energy do not).

Furthermore, there are various places where I identified a citation needed and I don't think that the definitions and claims made in the article are self evident. Without such attribution it seems that they are just being presented as original research - which I believe Wikipedia frowns on. alQpr (talk) 22:03, 5 January 2020 (UTC)