Talk:Price per watt

price vs cost
Price per watt, or $/W is a common way to compare the capital costs of various forms of electricity generation.

Since price and costs are not the same, shouldn't the name of this article be Cost per watt rather than Price per watt? Rfassbind (talk) 22:18, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Solar price per watt
It appears that more recent data shows installed solar power has fallen to $3.50 $/watt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.119.76.11 (talk) 03:01, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

No Dates
There are no dates on the power production of wind and solar. In a brief search I find 21.666GW of solar power a year produced by the US, instead of the 4.9 GW written. source of http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_1_01_a. This needs to be rewritten with a date.--Mark v1.0 (talk) 22:44, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Maybe simply redirect to "Cost of electricity by source"
Here is the opening of the very first version of this page: "Dollars per watt, or $/W is a common way to compare the capital costs of various forms of electricity generation. It refers to the number of dollars one would have to spend to buy a machine capable of producing one watt of electricity. Modern coal power plants are generally the least expensive sources of electricity by this measure, at around $2.10 a watt." It does not cite sources for the "common way", and I cannot find any.

Failing some evidence that this is in fact a term of art, I believe we should redirect to the broader topic page per deletion policies 6 and 7


 * Perhaps merge to Cost of electricity by source (??). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:02, 26 July 2017 (UTC)