Yes, it is a state. A unique state. You do hear about Rhode Island in the news, any time there's a mafia arrest, or large-scale world disaster, like a fire out West, which will invariably be mentioned in terms of number of Rhode Islands affected.
Existing types of fossil plants have a capital cost about $1-2 Billion/GW and new nuclear plants are estimated to cost about $2-5 Billion/GW, depending on the laws of the country in which the plant is built.his translates into an average of about $25,000 per Megawatt-hour and $25 Million per Gigawatt-hour. A storage plant that needs to store 26 Gigawatt-hours (just 1 day's power supply) would thus cost about 650 Million dollars to build (estimated range from $260 Million to $1.1 Billion dollars).
The average price for a kilowatt-hour of power in St. John's, for example, is 11 cents. New electricity from the planned Lower Churchill hydro development will come in at 14.3 Â¢/kWh, the provincial government predicts.dd to that Ontario biogas plants that get paid up to 19.5 Â¢/kWh and rooftop solar power systems making 80 Â¢/kWh, plus a proposal to pay small-scale Nova Scotia wind farms 50 Â¢/kWh. A 2009 MIT study found new nuclear plants cost twice as much to build as they did only eight years ago.