Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after

• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some reading for you, which I hope you’ll read:

  cis.org.au/…/the-renewable-energy-honeymoon-start…

  x.com/jnampijinpa/status/1973660876793368808

  Since I doubt you or anyone else will, I’ll take some bits from it:

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  “As the proportion of weather-dependent energy in the grid grows, the costs and difficulties of integrating this energy also grow at an increasing rate.”

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  The paper found (as per the graph):

  •⁠ ⁠Countries with less than 21% wind and solar generation have electricity prices of around US $0.15/kWh on average.

  •⁠ ⁠Countries with between 21% and 33% wind and solar generation have electricity prices of around US $0.24/kWh on average.

  •⁠ ⁠Countries that exceed 33% wind and solar generation, have electricity prices of around US $0.37/kWh on average.

  …

  The research notes, “No country has achieved penetrations higher than 60%, let alone 90%, without costs going up. A low-cost, wind-and-solar-dependent country simply does not exist.”

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  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Big surprise, running 50 year old plants lead to lower bills than new infrastructure. Now do new coal plants.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t need new coal plants.

      Should be building nuclear anyway.

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  • sucius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not going to read propaganda from an Australian right wing think thank, you’re right.

    It’s not actually cheap though, that’s the problem. Basically every country that is pushing “renewables” are having their power bills increase over and over and over with no sign of slowing down because it’s not cheap.

    I can’t speak for every country, unlike you, but in Southern Europe the trend is exactly the opposite of what you’re saying. bbvaresearch.com/…/spain-more-renewables-to-conti…

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “I’m not going to read your link cause it proves my ideology wrong. Here’s a link that proves mine right, and mine is much much much narrower in scope so as to not show the global trend”

      lol

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      • sucius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, it’s just that the study you linked is wrong in may aspects. The one I linked comes from a bank not a think tank, but you can find thousands more.

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