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My residential electricity costs about $0.12/kWh, including delivery. I don’t think that’s a realistic price for solar. Current utility-scale solar is maybe $30

My residential electricity costs about $0.12/kWh, including delivery. I don’t think that’s a realistic price for solar. Current utility-scale solar is maybe $30-$45/MWh with some estimates of $15/MWh in 2022. Obviously that doesn’t include transmission, but presumably it would make sense to co-locate fuel synthesis near generation and reduce those costs. Seems like that would make a big difference to those estimates.

ordu 7y ago
> it would make sense to co-locate fuel synthesis near generation and reduce those costs I'm not so sure about it. I believe that transmission of electrical energy is cheaper than transmission of fuel. So it would be better to collocate synthesis with airports where planes are refueled.