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Re:A Year of Clean Energy Milestones by pfdietz on Monday January 05, 2026 @04:51PM (#46505506)
The figure should be dollars per megawatt-hour, not per megawatt.
Re:A Year of Clean Energy Milestones by halfdeadcat on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:40PM (#46506130)
That 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).
Re:A Year of Clean Energy Milestones by pfdietz on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:17PM (#46506577)
In no way is the capex of any of those options that low, not by orders of magnitude.
Re:A Year of Clean Energy Milestones by gregbot on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:53PM (#46508205)
Dollars 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
Re:A Year of Clean Energy Milestones by pfdietz on Monday January 05, 2026 @10:09PM (#46508311)
Utility scale solar is around $1/W, so even $/kW wouldn't work.
Re:A Year of Clean Energy Milestones by credit_guy on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:58PM (#46522385)
You 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-...