Boys with boilers are entrenched opportunists. Steam power is old machinery, whether nuclear, coal, gas, wood pellets or garbage. Weakening nuclear power by trumping old numbers, new power is making great strides after a half-century ignoring it.
Solve Climate blog: Solar power is branded as clean but expensive, incapable of competing with nuclear, but a ‘historic crossover‘ significantly strengthens the case for renewable energy.
Commercial-scale solar developers in North Carolina are already offering utilities electricity at 14 cents or less per kilowatt hour.
Meanwhile, two power companies – Duke Energy and Progress Energy – are pushing ahead with plans for local nuclear plants that will generate electricity at the higher rate of 14 to 18 cents per kilowatt-hour.