Value chain · CLM-1198
In plain terms
The first project's receiving site is a circle 2 km across, with two hours of batteries on the ground.
The claim as recorded
For Project #1 the survey's Table 1 gives a rectenna of 1,000 m radius and 3,140,000 m2, with 2 hours of ground battery storage at 172 dollars per kWh costing 66 million dollars; Project #8 has a 2,178 m radius and 14,900,000 m2.
Scope and limits
THE VENDOR'S OWN FIGURES. SRC-013 is Virtus Solis's survey of its competitors and itself (T4), and states "Data associated with the Virtus Solis system was internally generated" (PDF 2). No held source checks them independently; SRC-076 Table 1 (PDF 12) repeats only the rectenna size, from manufacturers' claimed values (PDF 11), and gives no storage figures. The rectenna is given as a radius, so a circle; no ellipse for a slant beam is described. Own arithmetic: pi x 1,000^2 = 3.14 x 10^6 m2, matching; pi x 2,178^2 = 14.9 x 10^6 m2, matching. SRC-076 Table 1 gives the Virtus Solis P1 rectenna as 2.0 km diameter, the same figure repeated. The battery cost does not follow from the table's own inputs: 200 MW x 2 h x 172 $/kWh = 68.8 million dollars against the stated 66.00; for Project #8, 2,752 against 2,652. The table does not say how Cost is derived.
What it assumes
No assumptions are recorded against this claim.
Where it comes from
PDF 9, Table 1 at render, Project #1: "Radius of Rectenna" "m" "1,000"; "Rectenna Area" "m^2" "3,140,000"; "Storage Duration" "h" "2.00"; "Unit cost battery (x hour)" "$/kWh" "$172.00"; "Cost" "$ million" "$66.00". Project #8: "2,178"; "14,900,000".
Basis: rectenna radius in m; rectenna area in m2; ground storage duration in h; battery unit cost and cost
Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-1198
CLM-1198, Energy Aperture, as of 2024.
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