"The University of Texas Austin’s Energy Institute has put out an incredibly useful interactive map showing what types of power plants are cheapest to build in every county in the continental United States. "
"In most of the US, the lowest-cost plants tend to be natural gas combined cycle plants (NGCC, in red) or wind farms (in green). In the West, utility-scale solar photovoltaic plants (in purple) prevail:"
![[Hearth.com] why renewables and natural gas are taking over the US](https://www.hearth.com/talk/attachments/lcoe_map_no_externalities-webp.190235/ "[Hearth.com] why renewables and natural gas are taking over the US")
http://www.vox.com/energy-and-envir...wer-plant?mc_cid=f1daa6dbc1&mc_eid=43ddca35db
"In most of the US, the lowest-cost plants tend to be natural gas combined cycle plants (NGCC, in red) or wind farms (in green). In the West, utility-scale solar photovoltaic plants (in purple) prevail:"
http://www.vox.com/energy-and-envir...wer-plant?mc_cid=f1daa6dbc1&mc_eid=43ddca35db
