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HOUSTON, March 24 (Reuters) - The cost of building gas
plants has topped $3,000 per kilowatt, more than tripling over
the last decade, Carlyle's energy investment officer said on
Tuesday.
"There's a real increase that's happened, and that's
flowing into the power prices in the market today," Matt
O'Connor, chief investment officer of international energy at
Carlyle, said at the CERAWeek conference in Houston.