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According to a utility in South Carolina (Santee Cooper): "Related to cost — in 2008, natural gas generation was as low as $55/MWh and coal was about $22/MWh i
by jsight 7y ago
According to a utility in South Carolina (Santee Cooper):
"Related to cost — in 2008, natural gas generation was as low as $55/MWh and coal was about $22/MWh in our most efficient units. In 2018, the comparable prices were $26/MWh for natural gas and $34/MWh for coal."
- hef19898 7y agoThong in Germany is that CO2 certificates are so dirt cheap that the incremental cost of power generation puts coal plants second behind wind and solar with basically zero variable cost (I'd have to look up where hydro power stands). So gas effectively gets squeezed out of the market. The easy fix would be cutting the available CO2 certificates or making them more expensive. But for some reason that ain't happening.
- war1025 7y agoDoesn't Germany get most of its natural gas from Russia, which is a bit contentious for political reasons?
- hef19898 7y agoWell, yes. Still supply was stable. Not for Ukraine, so. Also a lot of the has is used for heating.
- village-idiot 7y agoYes. Fun fact, all of the natural gas that Germany bought from Russia used to flow through former Warsaw Pact nations like Poland. Now the gas goes at least partially through the undersea Nord Stream pipeline and the under construction Nord Stream 2. It's generally believed that this transition has made Russia much more bellicose in the region, as they can now threaten to turn off Poland's gas supply without also harming Western Europe at the same time.