from venturebeat.com, a VC site in thr US.Within a year, Ausra...

from venturebeat.com, a VC site in thr US.


Within a year, Ausra will match the price of natural gas plants, which generate electricity at about 9.2 cent per kilowatt hour, O’Donnell said. Within three years, it will match the cost of coal-fired plants, which is about 6 to 8 cents per kilowatt hour (without clean coal processes such as carbon sequestering or gassification). Existing competing solar plants, including one in Nevada, generate electricity at between 16 and 22.4 cents per kilowatt hour.