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.
According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for 2014, the latest year available, national median charges for childbirth hospital stays in the U.S. were: 1  $13,524 for delivery and care for mothers. 2  $3,660 for newborns.