The recent plunge in the price of energy has reduced the cost advantage of nuclear relative to thermal electricity generation, and rendered a rapid restart of Japan’s nuclear reactors increasingly unlikely. In any case, electricity prices are unlikely to fall much in coming months as utilities will use the windfall from lower fuel costs to restore profits. The upshot is that industrial electricity prices will remain among the highest in the G7.
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