$200 per Megawatt/hour. 200!
And that’s with Natural Gas as a supplement.
This power-station is a train-wreck. An extremely lucrative train-wreck.
It will (eventually) go out of business and have to be demolished. It will then require careful handling of the hectares of lethally toxic panel-coatings.
Wow that’s really uneconomical.
Good thing the crony capitalism part keeps food on somebody’s table
/s
Having said that, I just realised that this is a mirror plant, not one with acres of actual solar cells.
But still: $200 per MWhr is very expensive. The fact that it’s running at only about half output is just icing on the cake.
Lucrative only for the politicians who signed off on the project. Round them up and let them look for a real job.
I wonder what the $/Mbtu would be without the natural gas warm up cycle?
I lived in Sicily for awhile and the politically connected men of honor there operate heavily subsidized photovoltaic farms that produce electricity day and night with diesel generator assist.