Renewables Remain Competitive, as Utility-Scale Solar and Onshore Wind Remain Most Cost-Effective Forms of New-Build Energy Generation The Tightening of Capacity Markets Has Led to a Resurgence in New ...

Most POWER readers are probably familiar with levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and levelized value of energy (LVOE) as metrics used to help evaluate potential power plant investment options. LCOE ...

One of the most critical metrics for evaluating energy sources is the Levelized Cost of Electricity — which is a measure of the total cost of building and operating a power plant over its lifetime and ...

Numbers calculated by financial advisory Lazard as of June 2025 estimate price ranges for the generation of one MWh of energy by different sources. While the data shows that it is always cheapest to ...

Renewable energy doesn’t need subsidies to compete with fossil fuels when it comes to building new power plants. That’s a key takeaway in Lazard’s annual report on electricity generation costs. The ...

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, urged Big Tech to run data centers on 100% renewable energy by 2030. While the cost of renewables continues to decline, significant advancements ...

Lazard has released a report analyzing LCOE, a critical measure of cost-efficiency of generation sources across technology types. The report found that onshore wind and utility-scale solar have the ...

Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The Associated Press, was originally published on The Conversation website. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and ...

Scientists have developed a hybrid energy storage system combining lithium-ion batteries with power-to-heat-to-power thermal batteries (PHPS), cutting energy costs by 7 percent and boosting solar self ...

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be facing its last days, according to its builder and largest customer.