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From the article: So many orders came in that “[w]ith only two companies building plants, a rapid increase in orders escalated costs for major components and s
by qqqwerty 4y ago
From the article:
So many orders came in that “[w]ith only two companies building plants, a rapid increase in orders escalated costs for major components and strained the limited supply of qualified labor.”
- Manuel_D 4y agoPlants built in the 1960s and 1970s did exceptionally well on a cost to energy ratio. They were also built in greater numbers than in the 1980s and onwards: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0301421516300106-gr2.jpg https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03014215163001... The source given for that sentence is: Steve Isser, Electricity Restructuring in the United States: Markets and Policy from the 1978 Energy Act to the Present. So whatever that sentence is talking about, it happened after the period of rapid construction and cheap costs.