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These show that the weighted average capital cost of 113 utility-scale solar projects completed in 2012 was $3,900 per kilowatt (KW).
Their estimate was $3,873 per KW very similar to Dr Lovins's preferred figure.On the capital cost of wind, Dr Lovins again cites the US Department of Energy, in this case its Wind Technologies Market Report, which calculated the weighted average capital cost of 118 wind projects in 2012 to be $1,940/KW.
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Yearly costs, in terms of annualized CAPEX and OPEX, are then discounted by a cost of capital (a weighted average cost of capital) for the whole 10-year study period according to Equations (11) and (12), in order to take into account the "time value of money".
Company financials are assumed to stabilize in 2017, with 46% weight of equity (We) and 8% weighted average cost of capital (WACC).
We believe that all the ingredients are well mixed and baking together to ensure a sustained recovery in fortunes: over the next five years we forecast that Greggs will grow earnings per share by 11% compound annual growth rate, that free cashflow will grow by 27% to £79m and return on invested capital will bounce-back to 19%, well above its weighted average cost of capital of 5.6%.
It is right in line with G.E.'s weighted average cost of capital, according to analysts.
That's lower than Williams's 7 percent weighted average cost of capital.
Neither Takeda nor Toshiba seems likely to generate returns on these deals, even in the medium term, that exceed their already-low weighted average costs of capital.
While that is not terrible, it is less than the 9.2 percent at which Morningstar estimates G.E.'s weighted average cost of capital.
As a general rule, if Goldman's weighted average cost of capital was 10 percent, then those returns on equity justified a share price trading at up to three times its book value.
The bank said: We believe that Ofwat's decision to alter the price review timetable and announce the key financial parameters on January 27 is likely to herald a lower allowed weighted average cost of capital than the companies requested in their business plans.
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