Comment by Peanuts99
6 days ago
Having renewables distributed however is the big challenge. We've gone from a world where you have a small amount of large generators in static places to having many generators everywhere. If you don't have the capacity to transfer that energy to where it's being used it doesn't matter how cheap it is.
Except it does because the money saved on generation can be used to pay for extra transmission capacity and storage.
Solar and wind aren't 20% cheaper than nuclear power they're 20% of the price of nuclear power.