Power plant construction costs fall, index shows

摘要

The latest IHS CERA Power Capital Costs Index (PCCI) shows the costs of constructing new power plants fell an additional 3 percent between January and June, signaling a broader downward trend that has now spread beyond nuclear to all classes of power plants.rnThe PCCI tracks the costs of building coal, gas, wind and nuclear power plants and is indexed to the year 2000. It now registers 217 index points (down from 224 at the end of Q3 2008), indicating that a power plant that cost $1 billion in 2000 would, on average, cost $2.17 billion today.