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Table 6.

Cost of electrical energy production

Alternative	O&M		LCOE
Alternative	% Inv	US$/kW	Lifetime: year	Work hours	US$/MWh
Biomass	3·3^a	262	40^a	7000^b	153
Biogas	16^c	1269	20^c	8000^d	275
Biogas landfill	7·4^a	198	22^e	8000^c	63
Incineration	4·0^c	1451	20^e	8000^c	713
Tidal	3·7^a	802	20^a	2450^f	1365
Small hydroelectric	2^a	136	70^g	6132^h	133
Small wind	3·2^a	70	20ⁱ	1533^j	213
Photovoltaic	1·2^a	26	25^k	1450^l	183

Alternative	O&M		LCOE
Alternative	% Inv	US$/kW	Lifetime: year	Work hours	US$/MWh
Biomass	3·3^a	262	40^a	7000^b	153
Biogas	16^c	1269	20^c	8000^d	275
Biogas landfill	7·4^a	198	22^e	8000^c	63
Incineration	4·0^c	1451	20^e	8000^c	713
Tidal	3·7^a	802	20^a	2450^f	1365
Small hydroelectric	2^a	136	70^g	6132^h	133
Small wind	3·2^a	70	20ⁱ	1533^j	213
Photovoltaic	1·2^a	26	25^k	1450^l	183

^a

Connolly et al. (2016)

^b

OECD (2015)

^c

Gómez et al. (2010)

^d

de Souza et al. (2014)

^e

Danish Energy Agency and Energinet.dk (2012)

^f

Leite Neto et al. (2015)

^g

Xu et al. (2015)

^h

Fujiia et al. (2015)

ⁱ

Karthikeya et al. (2016)

^j

DWEA (2015)

^k

Byrne et al. (2016)

^l

IDAE (2011)