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Levelized Cost of Energy for a district heating loop
Built for educators teaching it to a class. Drop a live demo into a lecture or assign it as a shareable link — no lab installs. Simulate a district heating loop live below — adjust the inputs and watch it respond, right in your browser.
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LCOE spreads a power project's lifetime cost over every megawatt-hour it produces, letting wildly different technologies be compared fairly. It rewards high capacity factors and cheap capital, and punishes idle plants. The capital-recovery factor discounts future costs to today. It is the number that has made solar and wind the cheapest new power in most of the world.
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LCOE$52/MWh
Per kWh5.2¢
Capacity factor25%
Governing equation
Reading this result: At a 25% capacity factor the plant sits idle most of the time, so its capital is spread over few MWh — that thin denominator is what pushes LCOE up to $52/MWh.
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- Yes — this version of "Levelized Cost of Energy for a district heating loop" is framed for educators teaching it to a class. Drop a live demo into a lecture or assign it as a shareable link — no lab installs.
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