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>I think I read that once you get to like 40%, you need to spend a lot more on storage. You can get pretty high before the economics get sketchy. Below analysi
by Havoc 1y ago
>I think I read that once you get to like 40%, you need to spend a lot more on storage.
You can get pretty high before the economics get sketchy. Below analysis concluded that for many sunny places that point is in the 90%+. Most of EU will be lower than said sunny places, but point is it's not 40%. And the sprinkling of wind, nuclear, geo, hydro means there is a fair bit of room to still push.
Plus both solar and storage tech is still moving rapidly
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