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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by jwilliamson on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:13PM (#23472003)
A big driver is that wind and solar have only recently become economical. The price of solar power has fallen by 80% since 2010, so large scale plants are all very new. Capacity factors for wind are also improving rapidly, from 25% in 2000 to over 40% today.

Basically we've had 150 years to build out hydro, 70 to build out nuclear, and only a few for wind and solar.

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