The cost of electricity generation

PB Power has published its report ‘Powering the nation’ giving an overview of the cost of various electricity generation technologies.
The cost of carbon are included, but from a business perspective, i.e. the costs resulting from the obligations of generators under the emission trading scheme. This is not the full environmental cost, since electricity generators have been allocated 95% of their historic emissions free of charge. A similar exercise 2 years ago shows that expected generation costs for wave & tidal power have gone up dramatically. There is also a high degree of uncertainty in the cost of these technologies, as well as for the cost of biomass.

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