> Most people seem to have accepted renewables have already won that price competition. The big question that the crisis seems to highlight is if price competi

> Most people seem to have accepted renewables have already won that price competition. The big question that the crisis seems to highlight is if price competition is relevant. What people want is energy on demand when people want it, and the supplier want to demand as much money as the market can take. What energy cost to produce doesn't influence either of those two unless there is an overcapacity with multiple producers competing for the chance of selling. When customers pay 10-100 times the production cost, and are happy to do so over the alternative of not having heating or open factories, then the issue that energy politics is trying to solve is not about finding the optimal technology that in theory is cheapest or best. Any technology that can solve either short term or long term is desired technology as long they actually get implemented.