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Your link shows gas as the winner by a wide margin at $785. I'm interested what you mean about the 'conventional grid' preventing upgrades to renewables?
by brutusborn 3y ago
Your link shows gas as the winner by a wide margin at $785.
I'm interested what you mean about the 'conventional grid' preventing upgrades to renewables?
- jabradoodle 3y agoWorth noting that is initial capital costs of building the plant. Maintenance, fuel etc are not included, even before considering external costs such as poor health outcomes from pollution.
- brutusborn 3y agoI didn't even notice that. I think I got blind sighted by the fact that the parent commenter went to the effort of googling the Wikipedia page for a source and it didn't even support their point. The more confident an online commenter is of their assertion, the lower the chances it is true.
- hnben 3y agoLCOE is in the linked article as well, and it does paint a similar picture
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- jabradoodle 3y agoBecause your comment is slightly ambiguous and who knows what LCOE is: > On average the levelized cost of electricity from utility scale solar power and onshore wind power is less than from coal and gas-fired power stations,[1]: TS-25 but this varies a lot depending on location.
- hnben 3y ago> conventional grid sorry, I should've said "conventional power generation". I mean it like "using old school tech, like coal and oil".