Meteorologist Austen OnekApr 25, 2025

#TheFutureIsClean #LeaveOilInTheGround #LeaveGasInTheGround

“We built our last gas-fired facility in 2022, at $785/kW. If we wanted to build that same gas-fired combined cycle unit today…$2,400/kW,” he said. “The cost of gas-fired generation has gone up three-fold.”

Not only are gas turbine costs shooting up, but the backlog of orders means that they are hard to come by in the near-term. On top of that, gas plants can take several years to build."

https://gasoutlook.com/analysis/costs-to-build-gas-plants-triple-says-ceo-of-nextera-energy/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20built%20our%20last%20gas,gone%20up%20three%2Dfold.%E2%80%9D

Costs to build gas plants triple, says CEO of NextEra Energy 


NextEra Energy’s CEO said that gas turbines have a multi-year backlog, leading to soaring costs for new gas-fired power plants.

Gas Outlook
Show threadHeatherMJJun 20, 2024
@Zeb_Larson
It has got us talking about it. We should all be talking about it all the time, particularly at election time. We need to talk to politicians and not let them off the hook with their feeble excuses. No damage was done, I imagine #JustStopOil thought very carefully about what they were doing.
#LeaveOilInTheGround