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by gitgreen 1936 days ago
NuScale/Fluor claim they can bring the UAMPS project in Idaho online by 2027 at an amortized average energy cost of about $55/MWh.

https://www.powermag.com/nuscale-uamps-kick-off-idaho-smr-nu...

That would make it more expensive than onshore wind($45/MWh) and solar yet($48/MWh) cheaper than all other sources of energy including natural gas($59/MWh). Double the final cost of energy to $110/MWh and it would still be in theory cheaper than the average for coal($115/MWh). Granted I'm pulling these numbers from Wikipedia so it's not that simple but the numbers aren't unrealistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source