Overnight capital cost (power generation)

The Overnight capital cost is a term used in the power generation industry to provide a simplisitic comparison of the costs of building power plants.
It is usually computed by dividing the overnight cost of building the plant by the maximum instantaneous power the plant can deliver. This overnight capital cost does not take into account :
Hence :
The U.S. Department of Energy tracks and makes publicly available levelized cost of energy figures for competing technologies. These figures will vary substantially in other countries due to different energy policies and domestic energy sources.