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This is truly good news, but is it really worth calling out that a record was broken when it's been trending down regularly over time?

• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Key milestone awareness is important. The more people who know the raw economics, the better choices that can be made.
  • munk-a 8y ago
    This isn't a key milestone though, pretty much every week it breaks this record. That said the more headlines we can get about renewable energy the better, the recent moves to prop up coal are super disappointing.
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• IMTDb 8y ago
  The record being broken is just the headline of the article. The body is about the trend. The first sentence makes that perfectly clear.
• taf2 8y ago
  It’s one of those rare feel good things that hasn’t been yet flooded by negative view points that often follow a wave of positive news... there is probably a name for this?
  • zitterbewegung 8y ago
    Measurable technological advancement? See also Moore's law.
  • 3minus1 8y ago
    pre-backlash
• neolefty 8y ago
  The article mentions that too. It broke a record that was set [checks calendar] last week. But I think the headline is being a little click-baity—the article's real strength is analysis. It discusses broader trends—for example that location is important here (Ohio isn't going to get these low bids because it just isn't sunny enough)—and is fun to read.
• toss1 8y ago
  Yes. Especially since it's a continuous trend of records. It is still news when a wining team adds another victory to their streak and progresses towards the championship, Also, as pointed out elsewhere, TFA was mostly about this good trend. What point were you trying to make?
• jillesvangurp 8y ago
  True, but calling out the milestone of beating operational cost of state of the art coal/gas plants is worth doing. If you extrapolate the downward trend, it's very obvious that anything you build right now that burns fossil fuel is going to be a problem in terms of being able to compete throughout its projected life span. Prices are trending to the point where it will become economical to shut down existing and operational plants in favor of replacing them with solar or wind. The next milestone will be when existing coal/gas plants will start getting decommissioned. This will start with the older ones but very soon after may be followed by the new and shiny ones Trump is trying to build right now. That is if he manages to get investors to back that at all. It would be kind of a dumb investment given the above. And to preempt the battery comment, batteries were included with this bid, as is common these days.