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This wikipedia article has some interesting and recent numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#BNEF_(2020) https://en.wikipedia.org
by sfkdjf9j3j 6y ago
This wikipedia article has some interesting and recent numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#BNEF_(2020) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
That suggests solar and wind are much cheaper than nuclear, globally at least. But maybe that's not accounting for the battery costs necessary to make solar and wind practical for usual patterns of load?
- Gwypaas 6y agoLatest Lazard LCOE (Levelized cost of energy) report actually showed that the building new of the cheapest onshore wind is lower than marginal cost of running existing nuclear plants. It also showed that PV+Storage, though with their defined amount, can compete to nuclear new builds. https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019 https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019
- jka 6y agoNB: There's an updated Lazard report for 2020 (LCOE 14.0) published as of a few days ago: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-and-levelized-cost-of-storage-2020/ https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... (it's been posted to HN[1] but without any discussion so far) [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837837