What is the difference between a kilowatt and a kilowatt/hour?
Hmmm. ... One is used to measure how much is generated... the other how much is used.
Now maybe this might help:
$1,661 per kilowatt of installed nameplate activity
Definition of "nameplate activity":
Nameplate capacity means the maximum electrical generating output (in MWe) that a generator can sustain over a specified period of time when not restricted by seasonal or other deratings as measured in accordance with the United States Department of Energy standards.
Wind Turbines Running for One Year
In 2021, the average nameplate capacity of wind turbines installed in the United States was 3.0 megawatts (MW) (DOE 2022a). The average wind capacity factor in the U.S. in 2021 was 34.82 percent (DOE 2022b). Electricity generation from an average wind turbine is determined by multiplying the average nameplate capacity of a wind turbine in the United States (3.0 MW) by the average U.S. wind capacity factor (0.3482) and by the number of hours per year (8,760 hours).
Calculation
[3.0 MW average nameplate capacity] x [0.3482] x [8,760 hours/year] x [1,000 kWh/MWh] = 9,150,696kWh generated annually from one wind turbine.
The conversion factor for this equivalency statement is [your annual green power purchase in kWh]/[8,573,631 kWh/average turbine/year].
Several different types of green power products are available. This page outlines some of the main distinction between product options.
www.epa.gov
So to calculate the cost of a wind turbine that has a 3.0 megawatt name plate capacity would cost at $1,661 per kilowatt of installed nameplate
activity or which would mean 3 megawatt or 3,000 kWs. Or a cost of $1,661 per kW X 3,000 kW or cost per plant of $4,983,000 each.
Divide 526,360,300,580 kWh needed for projected EV cars/trucks per year BY 8,573,631 kWh/average turbine/year]
equals: 61,393 Wind turbines.
At a cost of $4,983,000 for each of the 61,393 WT needed to generate 526,360,300,580 kWh each year or: $305,920,954,353 to construct.
Therefore THANK you for asking the question as my assumption was based on considering that $1,661/kWh and that was wrong!
My previous calculations for Wind Turbines was incorrect according to the above calculations .
That still means trying to find where the $305 billion to build the 61,393 wind turbines.
The utility companies will pass this $305 billion on to the 123 million households directly through increased cost and indirectly to businesses that we consumers would pay for goods and services. In which case both directly and indirectly 123 million households will be an average of an additional $207/month to pay the utilities either directly or indirectly for construction of the 61,393 WTs to cover the additional 1/2 Trillion kWh.
