Comment Comment by apatheticonion Turkey is set to get 10% of its grid electricity from the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant [1]The build cost has been 22B (excluding loans) and it will have a capacity of 4456MW meaning it's $4.9/W.On average the cost per Watt for solar is 27 cents (excluding loans and costs for storage) [2][1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-pricesEDIT: incorrect calculation parent apatheticonion 3 years ago
The build cost has been 22B (excluding loans) and it will have a capacity of 4456MW meaning it's $4.9/W.
On average the cost per Watt for solar is 27 cents (excluding loans and costs for storage) [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkuyu_Nuclear_Power_Plant
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices
EDIT: incorrect calculation