1. Introduction
2. The Levelised Cost of Energy
2.1 Introduction to LCOE
2.2 Discount Rate
2.3 Other Financial Assumptions
3. Context: Fossil Fuel Levelised Costs Of Energy
4. Learning curves of energy generation technologies: an in-depth analysis
4.1 Learning rates
4.2 The Experience Curve and Learning Rate
5. Photovoltaic Technology
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Generation costs for PV Solar
5.2 Historical Cost Reductions
5.2.1 PV Module
5.2.2 Balance of System (BOS)
5.3 Cost Projections
5.3.1 Key findings
6. Wind Power
6.1 Introduction
6.1.1 Generation Costs for Wind Power
6.2 Cost Reductions
6.2.1 Technology
6.2.2 Wind Resource Assessment
6.2.3 Economies of Scale and Volume Effects
6.3 Cost Projections
6.3.1 Key findings
7. Concentrating solar power (CSP)
7.1 Comparison of projected costs of CSP from several analyses
7.2 Solar thermal power – introduction
7.3 Potential for cost reductions by component
7.4 International Energy Agency (IEA) – Technology Roadmap – Concentrating Solar Power
7.5 ESTELA and AT Kearney Associates
7.6 AEMO dataset
Glossary
Appendix I: LCOE Model Verification
Appendix II: Photovoltaic
Appendix III: Wind
Appendix IV: Concentrating Solar Thermal
Appendix V: Solar Resource
References