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https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cost_of_electricity_by_source<\/a><\/p>\n The cost of wind power is less than solar.<\/p>\n << In the windy <\/span><\/span>great plains<\/a> <\/span>expanse of the central <\/span><\/span>United States<\/a> <\/span>new-construction wind power costs in 2017 are compellingly below costs of continued use of existing coal burning plants. Wind power can be contracted via a <\/span><\/span>power purchase agreement<\/a> <\/span>at two cents per kilowatt hour while the operating costs for power generation in existing coal-burning plants remain above three cents.<\/span>[118]<\/a><\/sup> >><\/p>\n LCOE – Levelized Cost Of Electricity<\/p>\n https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levelized_cost_of_energy<\/a><\/p>\n —————————–<\/p>\n Life Cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources Wiki<\/p>\n https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emissions_of_energy_sources<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cost_of_electricity_by_source The cost of wind power is less than solar. << In the windy great plains expanse of the central United States new-construction wind power costs in 2017 are compellingly below costs of continued use of existing coal burning plants. Wind power can be contracted via a power purchase agreement at two cents per <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,543,542],"tags":[544,471],"class_list":["post-13983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-wind","tag-lcoe","tag-renewable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13991,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983\/revisions\/13991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}