A $ 40 / t tax would increase the wholesale and
retail prices of fossil fuelled electricity by about 4 cents per kWh.
Not exact matches
Not that even overlooking the effective pollution subsidy given to the
fossil fuel generators, the
retail price of electricity would not need to rise very greatly to change to sustainable electricity - it would go from $ 232 / MWh to $ 272 / MWh.
In the case
of solar power, while utility - scale solar is just becoming cheaper than
fossil fuels on the wholesale electricity market, rooftop solar panels have long competed with much - higher
retail electricity
prices.