> Usage fees are then added on top, paying anywhere from $11.35 per megapound in the summer to $35.013 during peak season. Steam with <1112 BTUs per pound vs r

> Usage fees are then added on top, paying anywhere from $11.35 per megapound in the summer to $35.013 during peak season. Steam with <1112 BTUs per pound vs room temperature will condense, so the heat value of a megapound of steam is at least 325,895 kWh. That's a marginal cost of 1 cent to 3 cents per MMBtu or 3.5 cents to 11 cents per MWh. The hookup cost ($3,555) is much smaller than the cost of the steam ($13k-$44k per the article). For comparison natural gas costs a couple dollars per MMBtu and wholesale electricity costs $40-$60 per MWh. *The steam is orders of magnitude cheaper.* If the article's quoted prices are accurate (note: Lincoln Towers seems to pay $2.43 per megapound, significantly less than the $11.35 usage fee the article gives immediately before. Not sure what's up.) then steam is practically free. I'm not really sure how that's possible; maybe there are subsidies or regulations enforcing production. A significant amount of the steam is from cogeneration, where steam is a byproduct of pollution-reducing processes- it makes sense that would reduce the cost, almost all steam would need to be a byproduct to explain the price.