Comment by gpm
2 days ago
This was true a couple of years ago.
This is no longer true.
Storage has become a lot cheaper very rapidly. The LCOE of solar with storage covering the night is now competitive.
2 days ago
This was true a couple of years ago.
This is no longer true.
Storage has become a lot cheaper very rapidly. The LCOE of solar with storage covering the night is now competitive.
Not entirely sure: everywhere I read about solar + storage, there are huge errors bars. Eg : https://www.lazard.com/media/eijnqja3/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...
Solar+storage : from 50$/MWh to... 131$/MWh !
Go make a decision with something like that.
The trend is clear, for sure, and it will make sense to extrapolate... Up to a point, as usual. (baring one of the "breakthroughs" that make it to the HN top page on e in a while and never materialize... Sigh)
Night, sure. Doesn't work in winter though. (Not that that means we should stop building solar - we're still far from the point where it wouldn't make sense to build any more solar because we can't store the energy.)
If you're bordering on the article circle, yes. Otherwise you just have to overbuild a bit more.
I live in the UK. The ratio between solar output on a typically sunny summer day and a typical cloudy winter day is about 20. So your "a bit" is doing a hell of a lot of work there.
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