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Micro-package to calculate the levelised cost of electricity

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A command line tool and Python package to calculate levelised cost of electricity

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Calculate levelised cost of electricity on the command line with the lcoe command:

$ lcoe 500000000 2000000000 25000000 0.07 20
LCOE is 0.03455442190262982

Use the lcoe library in your Python code:

from lcoe.lcoe import lcoe

operating_cost = 25000000  #$million/year
capital_cost = 500000000  # $million
discount_rate = 0.07  # %
lifetime = 20
annual_output = 2000000000  # kWh

lcoe(annual_output, capital_cost, operating_cost, discount_rate, lifetime)

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