Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ...
by avip on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:04PM
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Let's fix some false assumptions first.
1. The cost of a solar power plant is dominated by real-estate and infrastructure.
2. Energy companies are already building large scale solar farms, and have been for over 15 years. As any non-trivial large-scale construction project, these take years to approve and execute.
3. Electricity is far from a free market. In many countries (not sure how US works wtr), there are long-term commitments from grid operators (which are commonly the state) to buy zero-carbon electricity at a set price (in short, clean energy is subsidized pretty much everywhere).
1. The cost of a solar power plant is dominated by real-estate and infrastructure.
2. Energy companies are already building large scale solar farms, and have been for over 15 years. As any non-trivial large-scale construction project, these take years to approve and execute.
3. Electricity is far from a free market. In many countries (not sure how US works wtr), there are long-term commitments from grid operators (which are commonly the state) to buy zero-carbon electricity at a set price (in short, clean energy is subsidized pretty much everywhere).