{"id":36983,"key":"LCOE","title":"LCOE","latest":{"id":1205801,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T18:58:18Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"Levelised energy cost (LEC, also commonly abbreviated as LCOE) is the price at which electricity must be generated from a specific source to break even. It is an economic assessment of the cost of the energy-generating system including all the costs over its lifetime: initial investment, operations and maintenance, cost of fuel, cost of capital, and is very useful in calculating the costs of generation from different sources.\n\n== For Solar Photovoltaics See also ==\n\n* [[Review of Solar Levelized Cost]]\n* [[Levelised Cost of Electricity Literature Review]]\n* [[Lifespan and Reliability of Solar Photovoltaics - Literature Review]]\n* [[Photovoltaics energy: Improved modeling and analysis of the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and grid parity – Egypt case study]]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = What is LCOE? Appropedia explains this cost metric for comparing energy systems like wind, solar, and fossil fuels.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Finance]]"}