Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries
by kbart on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:14AM
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Wind turbines, solar panels, dams don't come for free and their capital cost ends up in consumers' bills anyway. Sure, on the long run we might achieve cheap or even free energy, but current tendency is rising of electricity prices in many regions, despite wider use of renewables, due to demand increasing even faster.
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Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries
by rando444 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:35AM
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Obviously the infrastructure is not free, but the prices are falling.
Scotland's government just made a deal to pay two windfarms £57.50 per megawatt hour (MWh), 40% less than they were paying even the previous year. [0]
Prices will continue to fall even further by the time your hypothetical bakery switches to electric vehicles.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/11/huge-boo...
Re:VW announces $84B investment in electric cars and batteries
by Angostura on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @08:20AM
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https://www.ft.com/content/77563334-9484-11e7-a9e6-11d2f0ebb...
"UK offshore wind power subsidy set to undercut nuclear"