What is the dollar cost of a megawatt wind turbine?

Question

The megawatt size wind turbine seems to be a standard so why not have the cost of these machines available to compare with other type of electric generators?

Answer 1

In terms of the initial cost, just to purchase a commercial scale turbine, the usual price is roughly $1 million per megawatt of capacity. So, a GE 1.5 MW would cost around $1.5 million. Installation and development of the site would be additional costs.

Answer 2

The turbine manufacturers do not seem to publish this info.

I suspect there are too many variables:

Cost of site preparation

Cost of tower

Cost to get local/county/state/EPA approval

Cost to run wires and for transformers and other electrical equipment

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