IEEFA points out this week that NV Energy has made a comparison on geothermal comparing it to the costs of nuclear and reckons that even the new NuScale Small Modular Reactor is way more expensive than existing geothermal state of the art. Two quoted projects – one at $69 per MWh and the other for $70 per MWh, which could be built virtually anywhere – are both now way cheaper than the recently increased costs for NuScale of $89 per MWh. NV Energy will use them to retire coal plants. One of these is with age-old tech and the other with Canada’s Eavor, which Rethink Energy has written up here. EDF Renewables and the UK’s Luminous Energy are planning an…