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The development and utilization of renewable energy (RE), a strategic choice for energy structural
adjustment, is an important measure of carbon emissions reduction in China. High cost is a main
restriction element for large-scale development of RE, and accurate cost estimation of renewable power
generation is urgently necessary. This is the rst systemic study on the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE)
of RE in China. Results indicate that feed-in-tariff (FIT) of RE should be improved and dynamically
adjusted based on the LCOE to provide a better support of the development of RE. The current FIT in
China can only cover the LCOE of wind (onshore) and solar photovoltaic energy (PV) at a discount rate of
5%. Subsidies to renewables-based electricity generation, except biomass energy, still need to be
increased at higher discount rates. Main conclusions are drawn as follows: (1) Government policy
should focus on solving the nancing problem of RE projects because xed capital investment exerts
considerable inuence over the LCOE; and (2) the problem of high cost could be solved by providing
subsidies in the short term and more importantly, by reforming electricity price in the mid-and longterm to make the RE competitive.
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Keywords:
Levelized cost of electricity
Renewable energy
Feed-in tariffs
1. Introduction
1.1. Research background
China is currently experiencing rapid development of urbanization, along with the requirement for adequate energy supply
(Jiang and Lin, 2012). The Chinese government proposed that both
energy intensity and carbon intensity would be reduced by 4045%
in 2020 compared to the level in 2005, implying that China's
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2. Methodology
Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is a convenient tool for
comparing the unit costs of different technologies over their
economic life (OECD, NEA/IEA, 2010). The LCOE methodology is
an abstraction from reality and is used as a benchmarking or
ranking tool to assess the cost-effectiveness of different energy
generation technologies (Branker et al., 2011). Estimation of the
LCOE of renewables is the basis of the appropriate FIT.
There are two models for calculating the LCOE: (1) the EGC
Spreadsheet model and (2) the System Advisor Model (SAM). The
former has been widely used in research reports by the OECD and
IEA/NEA in the cost estimation of power generation, while the
later is developed by National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL). The advantage of the EGC Spreadsheet model is that it
can estimate the LCOE of different generation technologies under
the constraint of limited data. Therefore, we use this method to
predict the LCOE of renewables in China.
As shown in Fig. 1, there are four major components determining the LCOE of renewable power generation technologies
resource quality, equipment cost and performance, the balance
of project cost and the capital cost. All of them can vary
signicantly between individual projects and countries (IRENA,
2012a, 2012b). Khatib (2010) reviewed Projected costs of generating electricity2010 Edition by OECD, NEA/IEA (2010), and
emphasized the key conclusion of the study the LCOE is determined by country-specic circumstances. Therefore, in order to
obtain more accurate results, the LCOE of RE should be studied
based on specic countries. Following the above principle, this
paper attempts to estimate the LCOE of renewable energies based
on the data of 17 power plants in China.
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Financing
Operation & Maintanance
Taxes
Capacity factor
Lifetimes
Costs of decommissioning
On site
Equipment
Transport cost
Import levies
Value-added taxes
Factory gate
Equipment
Project development
Site preparation
Working capital
Auxiliary equipment
Contingency payments
Levelized costs
of electricity
at 5% discount rate
at 8% discount rate
at 10% discount
rate
Project cost
t0
T
Et P E 1 r t
t0
I t Ot M t Dt 1 r t
t0
LCOE P e
t0
T
I t Ot M t Dt 1 r t =
t0
Et 1 r t
3
Using the discounted cashing ow (DCF) method, the calculations of LCOE of renewable energies in this paper are based on the
levelized average lifetime cost approach. In this paper, we use Eq.
(3) to estimate the LCOE of different renewables in China. The
most important assumptions are the utilization of xed discount
rates, which are 5%, 8% and 10%. Due to limited data, the discount
rate could not be differentiated by renewable energy market and
the risk of different technologies (Khatib, 2010).
It should be noted that the estimation is based on data of
different power plants located in different regions of China, while
the impact of power plants on the entire power system is not
included (e.g., the cost of grid connection, dispatching costs due to
intermittence of wind and solar energy, etc.). In order to evaluate
3. Results
3.1. Wind (onshore)1
Major inuencing factors of the LCOE of wind (onshore) include
the construction costs, operations and maintenance (O&M) costs,
electricity generation amount and lifespan of a power plant.
Among these factors, the construction cost is composed of equipment cost, infrastructure and construction cost, and interest
payment during the construction period. According to Tegen
et al. (2012), O&M costs make up 1015% of the LCOE in the rst
several years of a turbine's lifecycle, and then increase to 2035%
by the end of its lifetime. O&M costs consist of material costs,
repair costs, line maintenance costs, etc. Material costs may vary
from CNY 0.8 to 2 million per year according to the capacity of a
wind farm (Zhang, 2011). Repair costs will rise with the increase in
service life of a wind turbine. In this paper, we assume that the
1
Based on estimates from China Meteorological Administration (2009), China's
potential capacity of onshore wind is about 2380 GW at 50-meter hub height; and
China's potential capacity of offshore wind is about 200 GW, taking account of hub
heights of 50 m and water depth of 525 m in the offshore area. In late 2010, China
surpassed the U.S. as the country with the largest installed capacity of wind power.
The total installed capacity of wind power grew at the rate of 20.8% annually, and
reached 75324.2 MW in 2012 (CWEA, 2012).
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Table 1
Investment costs of wind (onshore) power plants in China.
Plant name
Capacity
(MW)
Estimated
electricity
generation
(GWh/year)
Overnight
construction costs
(million CNY)a
Construction
Equivalent Interest payment
duration (year) hours
(million CNY/year)
Decommissioning
costs (CNY/kW)
Average O&M
costs (CNY/kWh)b
Laizhou
Halahaixiang
Ningdong
Turpan
Azuoqi
GuazhouQiaowan
32 1.5
33 1.5
33 1.5
33 1.5
80 2.5
134 1.5
95.22
106.70
103.50
102.45
376.22
422.58
450.14
444.21
434.03
424.81
1598.05
1894.28
1
1
1
1
2
2
444.29
424.86
415.12
406.31
365.41
431.26
0.090
0.080
0.080
0.079
0.060
0.063
a
b
1984
2155
2091
2049
1811
2102
22.11
21.82
21.32
20.87
65.20
77.29
Overnight construction costs include owner's construction costs, contingency costs and interest payment.
Average O&M costs are the discounted values.
Table 2
The LCOE of wind (onshore) power in China.
Plant name
Laizhou
HalaHaixiang
Ningdong
Turpan
Azuoqi
Qiaowan
a
Location
Shandong
Heilongjiang
Ningxia
Xinjiang
Inner Mongolia
Gansu
Category of wind
resource area
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
Class
IV
IV
III
III
I
II
Tax-exclusive FIT
(CNY/kWh)a
0.562
0.562
0.535
0.535
0.470
0.498
At 8% discount rate
0.624
0.552
0.560
0.540
0.473
0.497
0.745
0.656
0.665
0.640
0.572
0.609
0.827
0.729
0.738
0.709
0.640
0.680
Rate of value-added tax for wind power projects in China is 8.5%. The initial value of FIT multiplied by 1.085 is tax-exclusive FIT.
material cost is CNY 6.0 per MWh based on the feasibility study
report (FSR). There is no repair cost in the rst two years of a wind
turbine's lifetime under warranty. According to FSR, the rate of
repair cost is assumed to be 1% of the total xed capital cost in the
third operating year of a wind turbine's lifetime, which rises to 4%
after the fourth year. The discount rates in this paper are set as 5%,
8% and 10% under three scenarios. According to OECD, NEA/IEA
(2010), expected lifespan of a wind plant is 20 years.
Other inuencing factors of the LCOE of wind (onshore) are as
follows: nancial expenses, administrative expenses, taxes and
decommissioning costs. Financing costs are mainly interest payments involved with borrowing money for the construction of
wind farms. For most of the wind power projects in China, about
7080% of the investments are supported by bank loans. Basically,
the loan terms are about 1016 years and the interest rates range
from 6% to 8% accordingly. Labor cost takes the largest proportion
in the administrative expenses. In order to simplify calculation, we
assume that there is no difference in the unit labor costs among
different wind farms. The average annual salary per worker is set
as CNY 60,000. In addition, employees' benets, compensation
insurance and housing funds are assumed to account for 14% and
43% of total administrative expenses, respectively. Taxes consist of
value-added tax (VAT), additional tax and income tax. The preferential VAT rate for wind power projects in China is 8.5%. The
rate of city maintenance and construction tax is 5%, the rate of
education surtax is 3%, and the income tax rate is 25%. For wind
power projects in China, enterprises could enjoy income tax
exemption in the rst three years and half reduction of income
tax in the subsequent three years. Moreover, we assume that xed
assets depreciate at a rate of 5% during twenty-year depreciation
period. The residual value of xed assets accounts for 30% of the
initial investment value, which is consistent with the data from
OECD, NEA/IEA (2010). Lastly, decommissioning cost is assumed to
account for about 5% of the construction cost.
Table 1 presents the costs of wind power plants located in
different regions of China.
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Table 3
Investment costs of solar PV power plants in China.
Plant name
Capacity
(MW)
Estimated electricity
generation
(GWh/year)
Overnight
construction
cost (million CNY)a
Construction
Equivalent Interest payment
duration (year) hours (h) (million CNY/year)
Decommissioning
costs (CNY/kW)
Average O&M
costs (CNY/kWh)b
Jialonggou
Wuqia
Gonghe
Weiwu
TianhuaYangguang
Maigaiti
10
20
25
30
50
100
17.2
36.79
43.81
49.99
79.5
179.38
224.79
238.24
465
405.95
591
1281.01
1
1
1
1
0.25
1
1085.11
595.6
898.83
642.55
562.62
636.64
0.073
0.044
0.098
0.066
0.060
0.061
a
b
1720
1839
1752
1667
1590
1794
10.25
22.64
15.28
19.94
28.08
55.06
Overnight construction costs include owner's construction costs, contingency costs and interest payment.
Average O&M costs are values after discounting.
Table 4
The LCOE of solar PV in China.
Plant name
Gonghe, Qinghai
Maigaiti, Xinjiang
Wuqia, Xinjiang
Weiwu, Gansu
TianheYangguang,
Qianghai
Jialonggou, Tibet
Tax-exclusive FIT
(CNY/kWh)a
At 8%
discount
rate
At 10%
discount
rate
0.922
0.922
0.922
0.922
1.060
0.818
0.839
0.897
0.965
1.168
0.978
1.012
1.084
1.147
1.426
1.085
1.133
1.212
1.270
1.605
1.060
1.337
1.616
1.800
a
The value-added tax rate for solar PV projects is 8.5%, and the initial value of
FIT multiplied by 1.085 is tax-exclusive FIT.
0.1 CNY/kWh lower than the exiting FIT (excluding tax). The
current feed-in tariffs (excluding tax) in most regions are higher
than the LCOE of solar PV projects at 5% discount rate, except those
in Qinghai province (TianheYangguang project) and Tibet (Jialonggou project). The LCOE of solar PV at 8% discount rate is about
0.2 CNY/kWh, higher than that at 5% discount rate; and the LCOE
at 10% discount rate is about 0.14 CNY/kWh, higher than that at 8%
discount rate.
3.3. Biomass3
Most of China's biomass power plants adopt direct combustion
technologies that use agro-forestry wastes as raw materials. There
are three determinant factors for the LCOE of biomass: construction costs, fuel costs and discount rates. Construction costs are
composed of costs of generator sets and boilers, electric power
construction and installation and interest payment during the
construction period. Among all expenses, costs of generator sets
and boilers make up about 6080% of the total construction
investments. Fuel costs denote the charges of straw as well as
other agricultural and forestry wastes, which make up about 60
70% of the LCOE of biomass energy. In this article, we assume that
the prices of straw and other agricultural and forestry wastes
range from CNY 200 to 400 per ton. Discount rates are set in three
scenarios: 5%, 8% and 10%. Moreover, we assume that the auxiliary
power rate is 12% based on the Feasibility Study Reports (FSR) of
biomass power plants in China.
Other factors inuencing costs of biomass power generation
are O&M costs, nancial expenses, administrative expenses and
taxes. In this article, we assume that the O&M costs are CNY
350 per kW. Financial costs mainly come from interest payments.
For most of biomass power plants in China, about 7080% of the
investments are supported by bank loans. The interest rates range
from 6% to 7% and the loan terms are usually 10 years. Labor costs
make up the largest proportion in administrative expenses. Compared with other RE technologies, biomass power projects are
labor-intensive. Generally, a biomass power plant with the capacity of 30 MW needs about 150 workers in China. Based on the FSR
of biomass power plants in China, we assume that annual income
per labor is CNY 40,000; the employees' welfare and insurances
are assumed to account for 14% and 43% of their total salaries,
respectively. Taxes of solar PV power plants consist of value-added
tax (VAT), additional tax and income tax. The preferential VAT rate
for biomass power projects is 8.5%; the rate of city maintenance
and construction tax is 5%, and the rate of education surtax is 3%.
3
National Energy Administration (2012) estimated that China's available
biomass resource is about 0.46 billion tons of coal equivalent (TCE) per year, of
which the utilization rate is less than 5%. According to China's 12th Five-Year Plan
(FYP) for biomass energy, utilization of biomass will exceed 50 Mtce per year, and
the installed capacity of biomass will reach 13 GW in 2015.
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Table 5
Investment costs of biomass power plants in China.
Plant name
Capacity (MW)
Estimated electricity
generation (GWh/year)
Overnight construction
costs (million CNY)
Equivalent
hours (h)
Interest payment
(million CNY/year)
Fuel costs
(Million CNY/year)
Houde
Dangyang
Hailun
Baoquanling
Huoqiu
30
25
24
30
30
195
160
164
195
225
297.41
204.94
260.89
287.68
310
1950
1600
1640
1950
2250
9.83
8.52
9.82
11.52
16.24
60
55
52.8
55
66
0.061
0.062
0.058
0.061
0.053
Table 6
The LCOE of biomass in China.
Plant name
Tax-exclusive FIT
(CNY/kWh)
Houde
Dangyang
Hailun
Baoquanling
Huoqiu
0.691
0.691
0.691
0.691
0.691
0.627
0.648
0.651
0.585
0.611
0.672
0.686
0.698
0.628
0.683
0.703
0.713
0.731
0.658
0.712
The income tax rate is 25%. For biomass power projects in China,
power generation companies could enjoy income tax exemptions
in the rst three years and the reduction of income tax by half for
the subsequent three years. The electricity generation costs of
biomass power plants in China are presented in Table 5.
Based on Table 5 and Eq. (3), estimates of the LCOE of biomass
in China are presented in Table 6.
From Table 6, the levelized cost of biomass electricity ranges
from 0.585 to 0.651 CNY/kWh at 5% discount rate, and from 0.658
to 0.731 CNY/kWh at 10% discount rate. The levelized cost of
biomass electricity of Baoquanling project in Heilongjiang province is the lowest among the above biomass power plants, which
is 0.585 CNY/kWh at 5% discount rate, about 0.1 CNY/kWh lower
than the FIT (excluding tax). More importantly, the existing feed-in
tariffs (excluding tax) can cover the LCOE of biomass power plants
at 8% discount rate. The LCOE of biomass power plants at 8%
discount rate is about 0.05 CNY/kWh, higher than that at 5%
discount rate; and the LCOE at 10% discount rate is about
0.03 CNY/kWh, higher than that at 8% discount rate.
A clear understanding of the relative cost-effectiveness and
feasibility of different energy technologies is imperative in determining energy management policies for any country (Branker et
al., 2011). Results in this paper show that, the LCOE of wind
(onshore) and biomass are lower than that of solar PV. Results in
this paper are consistent with the previous studies such as OECD,
NEA/IEA (2010) and Elliston et al. (2013). Hence, the development
of wind (onshore) and biomass in China has a comparative cost
advantage over the solar PV. Under three scenarios of discount
rates, the LCOE of solar PV ranges between 0.818 and 1.800 CNY/
kWh, the LCOE of wind (onshore) ranges between 0.473 and
0.827 CNY/kWh, and the LCOE of biomass ranges between 0.585
and 0.731 CNY/kWh. Even so, solar energy still plays an important
role in China's green innovation adoption (Li et al. 2011; ChungLing Chien and Lior, 2011), and China is under pressure to prosper
the photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry (Chen et al., 2014). It is
worth noting that renewable technologies have high learning rates
that could yield signicant cost declines. Rapid cost reductions in
some renewable power generation technologies require up-todate data for the evaluation of supportive policies for RE and a
dynamic cost analysis for policy amendment (IRENA, 2012a,
2012b). Therefore, establishing a timely data collection system of
4. Discussion
4.1. Mechanisms of electricity pricing and subsidies to RE in China
4.1.1. Renewable electricity pricing
4.1.1.1. Wind (onshore). In 1994, the former Ministry of Electric
Power issued a regulation on grid-connected wind farms named
Regulations on Management of the Integration of Wind Power Into
Power Systems. This regulation required provincial electric power
authorities to give priority to wind-generated electricity in the
purchase of electricity. In 1999, the National Development and
Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Science &
Technology (MST) issued an ofcial notication to further support
the development of RE, including a rule to set wind power price at a
level that could repay interest-included capital cost plus a reasonable
prot margin (NREL, 2004). In 2009, the NDRC issued a notice named
Notice on Perfection of Policy Regarding Feed-in Tariff of Power
Generated by Wind, which set four different FIT levels for wind
power in China based on conditions of wind resources and
construction (NDRC, 2009).
4.1.1.2. Solar PV. Before the rst nationwide FIT for solar projects
was announced, the Chinese government had sponsored two
rounds of public tender for solar power projects since 2009.
Most energy power companies were discouraged from investing
in China's solar PV market due to the low bid price in auctions
(ACORE, 2011). In 2011, the NDRC issued Notice on Perfection of
Policy Regarding FIT of Power Generated by Solar PV to provide
greater incentives for investors (NDRC, 2011). FIT of solar PV has
been divided into two categories: (1) For those projects that have
obtained the ofcial approval before July 1, 2011 or have
completed and have been put into commercial operation before
December 31, 2011, the FIT would be CNY 1.15 per kWh (including
tax); (2) for those projects that were approved after July 1, 2011 (or
were approved before July 1, 2011 but did not complete the
construction before the end of 2011), the FIT would be CNY 1 per
kWh, expect that in Tibet (the FIT of solar PV projects located in
Tibet is 1.15 per kWh). Afterwards, Notice on Improving the
Development of Solar PV Industry by Utilizing the Price Leverage
Effect was announced by the NDRC, and the new FITs were
differentiated for solar PV projects in different regions of China.
The FIT of solar PV would be 0.90 CNY/kWh for Class-I areas,
0.95 CNY/kWh for Class-II areas, and 1.00 CNY/kWh for Class-III
areas. In terms of academic research concerning this subject,
Zhang and He (2013) conducted an analysis on China's solar PV
incentive policies, particularly on the national FIT scheme. Zhang
et al. (2013) reviewed the setting of categorized on-grid price of
renewable power. Zhang et al. (2014) examined four stages of
China's solar PV policy.
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Table 7
Renewable electricity pricing in China.
Renewable energy
by type
Bid price
Feed-in tariffs
Biomass power
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Table 9
Additional required subsidies of solar PV through the FIT system in 2011.
Regions in China Electricity
generation
(thousand
GWh)
At 8%
discount rate
At 10%
discount rate
Other
Tibet
Total in 2011
0
0.028
0.028
0.108
0.056
0.164
0.206
0.074
0.280
0.81
0.1
0.91
Class I
Class II
Class III
Class IV
Total in 2011
16.76
16.15
11.92
31.18
76.01
At 8%
discount
rate
At 10%
discount
rate
0.05
0
0.19
0.81
1.05
1.71
1.80
1.40
4.31
9.23
2.85
2.94
2.25
6.72
14.76
Table 10
Additional required subsidies of biomass through the FIT system in 2011.
Location
Nationwide
Electricity
generation
(thousand
GWh)
At 8%
discount rate
At 10%
discount rate
0.086
0.001
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Acknowledgments
The paper is supported by Newhuadu Business School Research
Fund, the China Sustainable Energy Program (G-1305-18257),
National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12&ZD059),
and Ministry of Education (Grant No. 10 JBG 013). The authors
appreciate Shiying Pan and Yanan Ma for the help of English
language editing.
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