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Originally Posted by Swimmer
All the reports I have read stated 30 % plus more in costs. In the neighborhood of $.27 per killowatts hour. I think we are in the low to mid teens right now on cost per killowatt hour.
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Need to look close at your electric bill, at the energy cost not the total cost. On my present bill the electric energy itself cost is 7.9 cents per KW. Another 8.9 cents per KW for delivery and taxes. Total cost is 16.8 cents per KW at the house.
The Seabrook Nuclear plant sells power to the grid for about 4 to 5 cents a KW. Coal plants in the mid west sell power for 3 cents to the grid. So if Cape wind is getting 18.7 cents per KW that is about 4 times what other power cost. The Northeast already has the most expensive electricity in the US, out in the mid west they pay about 9 cents a KW at their house.
Wind is fine but America needs large scale 24 hour a day power plants. In another 20 years most of the present generation nuclear plants will be shutting down. I don't see 100 new nuclear units being built due to the cost. We will have no choice but to build large scale coal plants because we won't have the money to build anything else. We will need natural gas for other purposes.
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