This is the levelized cost, which includes the cost to build, operate, fuel and maintain a power plant. Wind is significantly cheaper: Unsubsidized, levelized prices per megawatt hour of electricity from wind range from $29 to $56, according to Lazard's most recent figures. In contrast, a decade ago, wind costs topped out at $70 per megawatt hour, according to the U. Department of Energy's most recent report on the wind technologies market. For solar electricity, unsubsidized, levelized prices range from $40 to $46, according to Lazard figures. In 2010, the average was closer to $120 per megawatt hour, said Mark Bolinger, a research scientist with the electric markets and policy group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Berkeley Lab conducts scientific research on behalf of the U. For reference, the average U. home uses about 10 megawatt hours of electricity each year. Renewables are getting ever cheaper The rise of fracking has produced a natural gas boom in the USA.
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