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Under a cap-and-trade scheme every tonne of CO2 emitted must be covered by an allowance, so the carbon price (dollars per tonne) is added to a plant's cost per MWh of electricity.
Dispatch is in order of total marginal cost, cheapest first. At what carbon price (dollars per tonne) do the two plants have equal all-in marginal cost, so that any higher price makes gas dispatch ahead of coal? Give an exact fraction or a decimal to at least 6 significant figures.