Renewable energy is cheaper than coal, nuclear

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This was in a major German newspaper today:
Studie zu Energiekosten - Das Märchen vom teuren Ökostrom - Geld - sueddeutsche.de (in german)

Here is the interesting figure from it. The boxes on the left represent the different ways of generating electricity. The symbols explain what it is: Photovoltaic, wind, water, nuclear, coal and lignite. The numbers are the cost per kilowatt hour in Euro cent in the year 2012. The numbers represent the actual cost, that means not only the amount people pay to the provider, but also what people pay in the form of state subsidies for these forms of energy. Nuclear turns out to be the most expensive because it gets the most subsidies (especially for R&D, security and the search for a nuclear waste deposit), photovoltaics is next, then comes coal and lignin and wind/water are actually the cheapest. That should be a surprise to some.

Oh and to the right is the track of the sum of all subsidies for these energy forms.