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Hmm, I think this wholesale pricing may be more accurate: http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/wholesale_markets.cfm http://www.eia.gov/electricity/mo

Hmm, I think this wholesale pricing may be more accurate: http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/wholesale_markets.cfm http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/wholesale_mark... The plant will serve California which seems to be in the 130-170$/MWhr right? But, this all assumes that a plant like this would not put a downward pressure on prices.

sitkack 12y ago
Wow, I had no idea it was so high. Yeah, that plant could have a 15 year payback cycle or less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricit... Since the US used 3800 TWhr of energy I doubt this plant would make a dent. If we got our watts/person down to the same level as Germany we would be doing pretty well in terms of excess energy capacity. We could shut down our most poorly performing power plants. With those rates you outlined if I ran the power system for a municipality I would start buying land in the desert now.