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Looks like Helion has a long-term target of 1¢/kwh.

Conveniently, BCHydro just emailed me my bill this morning. They charge $0.2077/day. Then $0.0939/kWh for the first 688kWh and then $0.1408/kWh after that.

It looks like Helion is targeting to be somewhere between 10x to 15x cheaper than hydro-electricity.

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I think you’re comparing the retail price of energy to the cost of generation. Usually there’s a big difference.

Yep. Hydro is reliably something like 4¢/kWh wholesale so Helion is aiming to be 75% cheaper. Of course the real benefit is that hydro is pretty bad environmentally and limited geographically whereas fusion in theory should be infinitely scalable.

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