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by philipkglass 3437 days ago
$120 per MWh (well, $115.60) is the residential retail price in Wyoming, not the price that electricity producers get at point of generation:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf...

The wholesale price a new American wind farm gets for its output in a region with good resources is maybe $30-$40/MWh. (Or $40-$50 if the wind farm lasts 25 years and collects the federal Production Tax Credit for its first 10 years.) The extra $10 in taxes makes a bigger difference at the wholesale level.