[LINK] Past the Black Stump - Was Hot Rocks

[Greg Taylor]

On 2011/04/04 6:10 PM, Tom Koltai wrote:
> .....
> Umm, not really. My understanding was that it was to be a 2 MW plant,
> with transmission loss on a cold day being 2kW per kilometre
> (conservatively) than the deliverable to 100 Km distance is only 90% of
> generated power.
> @ 200 kilometres, 80% of Gen. power.
>
> For the Portland customer, they would only be able to deliver -200 kW.
> (yep minus 200 KW)
> .....

Power loss depends on transmission voltage and transmission line 
resistance per km.

What figures did you use to get your 2kW per km power loss?

Greg