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With battery tech and solar panel efficiency improvements that we get every year I am of the opinion in 10-15 years even natural gas plants will not be competet
by xbmcuser 9y ago
With battery tech and solar panel efficiency improvements that we get every year I am of the opinion in 10-15 years even natural gas plants will not be competetive. I am talking about the tech articles we get every year but actual pannels and batteries that are delivered.
- maxerickson 9y agoI think it is pretty difficult to accurately project the adoption rates of those technologies (because most of the information we have is about adoption rates when they are marginally price competitive), but the current adoption rates don't have us with anywhere near enough solar deployed to stop using natural gas in 20 years. I guess you are talking more about whether it is a competitive investment, but if we aren't fully on solar the faster construction time and easier siting of natural gas plants will drive some investment (siting mostly in terms of land area/MW).