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).
Thus the nuclear plant costs $6.36 per Watt, although for a new design and not having built US reactors in 15 years, we expect significant cost overruns. We give data for the Brightsource plants, and then scale them up to 1.1 gigaWatt in both peak power and then average power, for comparison.he peak power of the site is 370 megaWatts, or 152 Watts per square meter of mirror. The cost of the facility is $2.2 billion.