The price paid for long-term solar power purchase agreement (PPA) contracts in 2015 fell below 50 dollars per megawatt-hour (or 5 cents per kilowatt-hour) in 4 of the 5 regions analyzed.
Only in California hospitals was the difference between complicated and uncomplicated delivery charges greater than $6,000 for vaginal births and $10,000 for cesarean births. The highest proportionally in Rhode Island.
1 A normal baby delivery in the U.S. costs on average about $10,000 while it's $8,307 in Switzerland and $2,251 in Spain. 2  If that delivery becomes a C-section, the cost in the U.S. increases to $15,240 on average, but would cost $5,492 in the Netherlands.3  Drug costs can also be quite different.rgentina and Spain were the other two countries highlighted in that one-day hospital cost comparison with respective prices of $702 and $481. Among the study's other findings 1  : A heart bypass in the States is a whopping $75,345, compared with $42,130 in Australia, $40,368 in New Zealand and $15,742 in the Netherlands.