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The figure should be dollars per megawatt-hour, not per megawatt.
by pfdietz 10mo ago
The figure should be dollars per megawatt-hour, not per megawatt.
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- halfdeadcat 10mo agoThat is incorrect. The article is referring to the cost of the infrastructure, not the cost of the electricity that infrastructure produces. Power plants are spec'ed by megawatt (peak).
- pfdietz 10mo agoIn no way is the capex of any of those options that low, not by orders of magnitude.
- gregbot 10mo agoDollars per kilowatt would also make more sense but yes the number are off by about a factor of 1,000. If a 1 GW nuclear power plant cost only $200 per megawatt the entire plant would cost $200,000 which is… completely wrong
- pfdietz 10mo agoUtility scale solar is around $1/W, so even $/kW wouldn't work.
- credit_guy 10mo agoYou are right. I checked the source, it is the graph on slide 14 of the Lazard presentation [1]. The graph is the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) in dollars per MWh. [1] https://www.lazard.com/media/5tlbhyla/lazards-lcoeplus-june-2025-_vf.pdf https://www.lazard.com/media/5tlbhyla/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...