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It's not forbidden, it just has a ~10% tariff (fine). $10 per MWh compared to the current price of $120 per MWh. If solar or wind ends up actually cheaper than
by Hondor 10y ago
It's not forbidden, it just has a ~10% tariff (fine). $10 per MWh compared to the current price of $120 per MWh. If solar or wind ends up actually cheaper than coal, it'll probably be by more than that 10% so it'll still be economical to use them.
Furthermore, the fine doesn't apply to exported electricity, which is most of it:
"Wyoming sends two-thirds of the electricity it generates to nearby states" [1]
[1] https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.cfm?sid=WY https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.cfm?sid=WY
- philipkglass 10y ago$120 per MWh (well, $115.60) is the residential retail price in Wyoming, not the price that electricity producers get at point of generation: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf... The wholesale price a new American wind farm gets for its output in a region with good resources is maybe $30-$40/MWh. (Or $40-$50 if the wind farm lasts 25 years and collects the federal Production Tax Credit for its first 10 years.) The extra $10 in taxes makes a bigger difference at the wholesale level.