Re:Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S
by rsynnott on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:35PM
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This is assuming that you're replacing old, bad power (ie coal, or old-fashioned unresponsive gas plants) with a solar/responsive gas turbine combo. The US still has a fair bit of coal that could stand to be replaced, but I doubt there's enough gas to take up the slack of a solar/gas system without building more.
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Re:Solar Just Hit a Record Low Price in the U.S
by ghouse on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:41PM
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Over the past decade (since the wide-scale commercialization of fracking in the US), coal plants have been retired or repowered (with gas) at a record pace. I believe the share of generation has dropped from 50% to 30% in that period.