And that’s not a bad thing.
But as the new report Uptake just released shows, there has been a significant and continued rise of non-fuel power generation operations and maintenance (O&M) costs. One of the key findings from our analysis of 20 years of data major utilities submit annually to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is that these costs per megawatt-hour have soared 74 percent.
See for yourself in a preview of our report, “Broken: Costs to Operate, Maintain Electricity Generation Have Soared Over Two Decades”: