What Will It Cost To Generate Electricity?
A quick visual snapshot of how prices for different generating resources is expected to change in the coming decades.
A quick visual snapshot of how prices for different generating resources is expected to change in the coming decades.
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It is now cheaper to build a new solar or wind farm to meet rising electricity demand or replace a retiring generator, than it is to build a new fossil fuel-fired power plant.
The latest cost analysis from IRENA shows that renewables continued to represent the most cost-competitive source of new electricity generation in 2024.
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Numbers calculated by financial advisory Lazard as of June 2025 estimate price ranges for the generation of one MWh of energy by different sources.
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Here is a breakdown of the cost of renewable energy according to our research, ranked by least to most expensive: Compare these costs to ultra-supercritical coal, which costs $72.78 per megawatt-hour,
Table 2 shows a full listing of the overnight costs for each technology and electricity region, if the resource or technology is available to be built in the given region.
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The latest cost analysis from IRENA shows that renewables continued to represent the most cost-competitive source of new electricity generation in 2024.
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