Hacker News Reader

You can look up Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP) data. Some Independent System Operators publish the information online. It varies pretty widely by region, and by time of day, time of year, condition of the grid, etc.

ERCOT: http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmpHg.html CAISO: http://www.caiso.com/PriceMap/Pages/default.aspx MISO: https://api.misoenergy.org/MISORTWD/lmpcontourmap.html

Various data here: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/wholesale/

From my brief browsing, $23.76 is <70% of the average $/MWh price across the available data.

That's mind boggling. This is absolutely incredible. Our country has so000 much hot, sunny unused land in the west. Let's cover it up with solar panels and make use of the free sunshine.

Storage and transmission are the ongoing problems here. Also applies to wind on the Great Plains.

that is about $2 cents on kwh! Sounds about right for wholesale price.