ESTIMATE OF THE POTENTIAL MARKET IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

The potential market for SMPRs depends on a number of factors which would make SMPRs attractive and usable. The following are essential  

They would have to be economically competitive with alternative generating plants, in particular coal-fired plants, in a qualified project evaluation (cf. Section 4.3.1) based on present and assumed conditions and costs at the site of the future power plant. (This condition would always remain necessary) and 

Their introduction on the grid would have to be technically feasible, i.e. as a general indication the plant capacity should not exceed 10% of the total installed capacity in the interconnected grid (although this criterion has known exceptions) which would require site-specific studies (cf. Section 4.1.2). 

While on some sites it may be technically feasible to introduce a bigger, and presumably more economic, unit, it may still be desirable to chose an SMPR for the following reasons (cf also Section 2)  

Better financial risk management may be possible because of the smaller total financial package  

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