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Does anyone have good resources (or can provide a good estimate) for the cost of a moderate sized photovoltaic solar plant like this? Both up front capital, and ongoing maintenance?

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What you want is NREL's Annual Technology Baseline spreadsheet/presentation/scenario viewer[1]. Plenty of fun numbers and formulas to look at there (Disclaimer: I worked on the hydro section, so I'm a bit biased to think it's useful).

[1] http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/data_tech_baseline.html

The DOE does some work to estimate the upfront costs:

http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2016/37745

Ballpark of a couple bucks a watt.

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