01.12.2012 Views

Temperature - European Investment Bank

Temperature - European Investment Bank

Temperature - European Investment Bank

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

WEST AFRICAN POWER POOL (WAPP) PÖYRY ENERGY LTD.<br />

Mount Coffee HPP ESIA and RAP 2012-09-18<br />

ESIA Report Page 198<br />

25.4.2 Costs<br />

The economic analysis is generally carried out for constant or real prices (no<br />

consideration of inflation). In the present case, US Dollars at 2012 level were used. All<br />

the costs and benefits were compared over a period of operation of 50 years, which<br />

corresponds to the average economic life of a hydropower plant. For the Base Case a<br />

discount rate of 10% was used.<br />

25.4.2.1 <strong>Investment</strong> Cost<br />

According to the latest report prepared by the firm Stanley Consultants, the total<br />

construction cost for the rehabilitation of the Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant is equal,<br />

in round figures, to 178 million US $. This amount includes all the costs incurred for the<br />

implementation of the rehabilitation of Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant.<br />

In the economic analysis, as was mentioned in Section 4.1, all transfer payments,<br />

subsidies, taxes have to be excluded. Stanley Consultants estimated that taxes and duties<br />

represented a sum of 13.50 million US $. That means that the investment cost to be<br />

considered for the economic analysis is equal to 164.1 million US $.<br />

The distribution of the investment cost over the construction period is as follows, in<br />

million US $:<br />

Table 25-15: MCHPP Rehabilitation Project, distribution of cost<br />

Year -4 -3 -2 -1 1<br />

Percentage 14.60 17.00 37.90 30.10 0.40<br />

Amount 23.959 27.897 62.194 49.394 0.656<br />

25.4.2.2 Annual Operation and Maintenance Cost<br />

The annual operation and maintenance cost covers the following outlays:<br />

� Operation and maintenance<br />

� Renewals, respectively replacement<br />

� Insurance<br />

� General and administrative.<br />

Usually for hydropower projects, the annual operation and maintenance cost is related<br />

to the corresponding investment cost. In the present analysis, it was assumed that the<br />

annual operation and maintenance cost is equal to 1% of the investment cost. This<br />

percentage takes into account the type and size of the Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant.<br />

Hence in the present study, the annual operation and maintenance cost was taken equal<br />

to 1.641 million US $.

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!