Infographic- Cost of maintaining energy

The cost of maintaining energy (and its operation) is fundamental to the business model of a power plant, being a part of the investments together with capital expenditures and fuel costs, which must be balanced against life cycle profitability, production efficiency and the availability of the energy source. These costs vary widely between different forms of energy generation and play a basic role in analyzing the cost of different power plants.

In this infographic, we show you the average operating and maintenance costs of different generation methods based on the World Energy Investment Outlook 2014 report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), which includes raw information on the average annual operating and maintenance costs for the energy industry, both currently and in a future forecast.