The volume of nickel plated is surface area times the thickness. That's $2m^2 \times 0.03 \ cm $ We'll use cubic cm as the units so it's $2m \times 1m \times 0.03 \ cm $ = $200 cm \times 100 cm \times 0.03 \ cm= 600 \ cm^3 $ This helps to find the mass as the density is given as $8.9 g/cm^3$. The mass = density $\times$ volume = $ 8.9 \ g/cm^3 \times 600 \ cm^3 = 5.34 \ kg$ Convert this to moles of Nickel. $\displaystyle \frac{5.34 \times 10^3 \ g}{58.71 \ g/mol} = 90.96 \ mol $ We'll come back to this. Now for the current, $0.3 A/cm^2$ applied to a 5 cm square plate, meaning that the total current on the plate at a given time is $0.3 A \times 25 \ cm^2 = 7.5 \ A$ or $7.5 \ C/s$. However, only a fraction of that actually reduces the nickel (75%) so $5.625 \ A$ The voltage is then $ V = IR = 5.625 \times 0.4 $ The time calculation involves the actual nickel. $I = \displaystyle \frac{q}{t}$ Where q = total charge We have 90.96 mols of Nickel reduced. $Ni^{2+} + 2e^-$ -> $Ni$ That's 2 moles of electrons per mole of Nickel. So we need $181.92$ mol of electrons. The charge per mol of electrons is Faraday's constant of $96485.3 \ C/mol$ The total charge is just $181.92 mol \times 96485.3 \ C/mol$ Then we rearrange the formula of current for time $\displaystyle t = \frac{q}{I} = \frac{181.92 mol \times 96485.3 \ C/mol}{5.625 C/sec} $ $time = 3120463 \ seconds$ or $866 \ hours$ That's sort of the basic idea I'd imagine. I may have made a mistake somewhere in between. The time though while seems long is in line with this: https://sciencing.com/calculate-electroplating-7597391.html There, they plated just one mole of Cu and with a higher current. That took 2 hours. We have a lot more of Ni and smaller current. Then $Energy = power \times time = VIt$ and you can calculate the cost from there.