Comparing electricity production costs: Fossil fuels, wind, solar

Comparing electricity production costs: Fossil fuels, wind, solar / Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, 24/04/2014 http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.fr/2014/04/comparing-electricity-production-costs.html To compare the costs of producing electricity in various ways, the U.S. Energy Information Administration uses what is called "levelized cost." The idea is to consider the cost of building a new electricity-generating facility, thus using the most recent technology, and then using that ...