Dr. Mark Cooper at the Natural Resources Committee

On March 24th, 2011. See this statement in context.

March 24th, 2011 / 5:15 p.m.

Senior Research Fellow for Economic Analysis, Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School, As an Individual

Dr. Mark Cooper

The costs that you see there are levelized, so they take into account availability. The solar number is again from Lazard, who is looking out to 2016 and sees solar coming down. He's optimistic about solar, and it turns out he's optimistic about nuclear.

These are levelized costs. These are busbar costs. They take into account the availability. Biomass is listed as slightly below wind. And these are straight from the source in Lazard.

If you look at the EIA numbers—

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