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

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.”

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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