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US Wind Power Prices Down To $0.04 Per kWh
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/11/us-wind-power-prices-down-to-0-04-per-kwh/
US Wind Power Prices Down To $0.04 Per kWh
Anyone who tells you wind power is expensive is bad-shit crazy. Wind power is the cheapest option for new electricity generation in many if not most places in the world, including much of the US. That would indeed help to explain why the US installed more wind power capacity than power capacity from any other source in 2012, 42% (or 43%?) of all new power capacity in the country.
In announcing a recent report released by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Berkeley Lab actually noted that, The prices offered by wind projects to utility purchasers averaged $40/MWh for projects negotiating contracts 2011 and 2012, spurring demand for wind energy.
Thats $0.04 per kWh. Even if you add in the $0.022 Production Tax Credit (PTC), thats $0.062 per kWh.
As the reader who shared this with me aptly emphasized, This is a low number. Its not just the LCOE of wind. It includes real estate, transmission, taxes and profits. Its the delivered to the door cost of electricity, not just the generation price.
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US Wind Power Prices Down To $0.04 Per kWh
Anyone who tells you wind power is expensive is bad-shit crazy. Wind power is the cheapest option for new electricity generation in many if not most places in the world, including much of the US. That would indeed help to explain why the US installed more wind power capacity than power capacity from any other source in 2012, 42% (or 43%?) of all new power capacity in the country.
In announcing a recent report released by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Berkeley Lab actually noted that, The prices offered by wind projects to utility purchasers averaged $40/MWh for projects negotiating contracts 2011 and 2012, spurring demand for wind energy.
Thats $0.04 per kWh. Even if you add in the $0.022 Production Tax Credit (PTC), thats $0.062 per kWh.
As the reader who shared this with me aptly emphasized, This is a low number. Its not just the LCOE of wind. It includes real estate, transmission, taxes and profits. Its the delivered to the door cost of electricity, not just the generation price.
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US Wind Power Prices Down To $0.04 Per kWh (Original Post)
bananas
Aug 2013
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penultimate
(1,110 posts)1. And what happens when we use up all the wind?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. We suffocate
By depleting stocks of natural wind and preventing it from circulating, people who would otherwise be downwind of the turbines lose access to their normal sources of fresh air.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)5. Unless of course they are close to the hot air from energy experts who have
stated that wind and solar energy will never be reliable .....
bemildred
(90,061 posts)3. That's stunning. nt
8 track mind
(1,638 posts)4. that's all fine and dandy but
What happens when we have a wind meltdown? It will be the biggest non-mess the world has ever witnessed
kristopher
(29,798 posts)6. Nyuk, nyuk nyuk...
I find myself chucking a lot at the positive news on energy lately. :