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Table 2 DCF calculation of each year’s revenues, costs and net profit, in 2012 Canadian dollars

From: Analyzing the impact of environmental variables on the repayment time for solar farms under feed-in tariff

 

Year 0

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Initial System Cost

(40,005,000)

    

OM Cost

 

(380,952)

(362,812)

(345,535)

(329,081)

Land Cost

(41,496)

(39,520)

(37,638)

(35,846)

(34,139)

Electricity Sales

 

5,935,888

5,653,227

5,384,026

5,127,643

Cumulative Income

 

5,935,888

11,589,115

16,973,140

22,100,784

Cashflow

 

(34,450,064)

(29,159,649)

(24,121,159)

(19,322,596)

Year 5

Year 6

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

(313,410)

(298,486)

(284,273)

(270,736)

(257,844)

(245,565)

(32,513)

(30,965)

(29,490)

(28,086)

(26,749)

(25,475)

4,883,470

4,650,924

4,429,451

4,218,525

4,017,643

3,826,326

26,984,254

31,635,177

36,064,628

40,283,153

44,300,796

48,127,122

(14,752,537)

(10,400,100)

(6,254,921)

(2,307,132)

1,452,667

5,033,428