Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear
booly@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoVogtle added 2 AP1000 reactors for $35 billion. Future deployments might be cheaper, but there’s a long way to go before it can compete with pretty much any other type of power generation.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They had to switch halfway through which is what added the cost that’s not a realistic cost per reactor
booly@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Ok, current projections are still for the next two AP1000s at Vogtle to be something like $10 billion. That’s just not cost competitive with solar/wind. And it’s also not very realistic to assume that there won’t be cost overruns on the next one, either. Complex engineering projects tend to run over.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Next two? After you mentioned it I tried googling and can’t find anything about current projections for new AP1000s at vogtle.
booly@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
This paper lays out the cost projections that one could expect with the lessons learned from Vogtle Units 3 & 4, with the tax credits and government guarantees available as of 2024:
web.mit.edu/kshirvan/www/…/ANP201 TR CANES.pdf