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I haven't heard much about cost overruns for wind farms and solar panel farms. Solar thermal, yes, that's a startup industry.

• ummonk 8y ago
  To clarify, it happens in basically any industry with megaprojects.
  • greglindahl 8y ago
    So, it applies to all of the recent large solar, wind, and battery projects... which appear to hit their budgets and dates? Or are those not megaprojects?
    • angry_octet 8y ago
      Most megaprojects have mega complexity. In contrast, wind, solar and batteries are scaling by having many units, feeding in to a dumb grid, and don't have the complexity explosion. Distributed generation and smart loads were invented to add enough complexity (technical, regulatory) to allow them to achieve massive system failure :-)
      • CompelTechnic 8y ago
        This is why I think solar can win in the long term (wind already has won) - just scale up linearly. Doing so is geared toward standard assembly line production, standardized installation for the technicians, regardless of scale.