{"id":18658,"date":"2019-09-08T10:25:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T10:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solarity.jo\/?p=18658"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:02:53","slug":"what-does-lcoe-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solarity.eu\/jo\/blog\/what-does-lcoe-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does LCOE mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18658\" class=\"elementor elementor-18658 elementor-19321\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e8958b6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"e8958b6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b37ee3a\" data-id=\"b37ee3a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db521b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"db521b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What does LCOE mean?<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6042aa37 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default parallax_section_no qode_elementor_container_no\" data-id=\"6042aa37\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5e6f6dc2\" data-id=\"5e6f6dc2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc2423c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dc2423c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Imagine that you want to buy a new car and you want to know which model is most bang for your buck. A sure method to find out, is to choose the vehicle that costs you the least for every km you run. A cheap car would obviously cost less for starters, but this would come with frequent trips to the mechanic because of shorter warranty times and higher fuel consumption.<\/p><p>As time goes on you would eventually realize that you are paying more for every km you run compared to buying a high quality, but more expensive machine.<\/p><p>Similarly, to this example, LCOE or Levelized cost of energy is the cost of power produced by solar energy over the lifetime of the PV system. In other words, the lower the (LCOE)\u00a0cost you must pay for the energy the better your overall system is.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b036adf elementor-widget elementor-widget-read-more\" data-id=\"7b036adf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"read-more.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/solarity.eu\/jo\/blog\/what-does-lcoe-mean\/#more-18658\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading What does LCOE mean?\">Continue reading<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that you want to buy a new car and you want to know which model is most bang for your buck. A sure method to find out, is to choose the vehicle that costs you the least for every km you run. 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