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Note that in my comment $25 MWh was only about OPEX (fuel cost, personnel, etc.), while your cost includes CAPEX, interest, and probably payments to a decommission fund. The number is based on 2013 estimate of the US Department of Energy (IIRC at the time it was $23 MWh), so it may be indeed different for ERP. Though if it's sufficiently higher than OPEX of the old US reactors, then I would say there is a problem with the ERP design.


Well, no one is going to make an investment calculation on only OPEX. Lazard puts the average marginal cost for fully depreciated reactors at $29/MWh.

There in lies the issue, the total cost for newly built solar and wind is lower than the OPEX of existing plants.


I was answering the GP question with a rough estimate based on simplistic calculations, not building a full blown business model for the reactor in question.


Well, saying it's an easy profit for 40 years seems like a too certain conclusion then?

On a yearly basis these are the average wholesale prices in Finland:

2020 - €28,02 /MWh

2019 - €44,04 /MWh

2018 - €46,80 /MWh

2017 - €33,19 /MWh

2016 - €32,45 /MWh

2015 - €29,66 /MWh

From that we can see is that the average price during the years was about equal to the OPEX we've seen from several sources. Other years you might make some back compared to OPEX.

https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/services/power-market-data-ser...




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