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Paul Eastwood Dec 26, 2022

The energy transition is often characterised by the falling costs of solar power and how it is increasingly cost competitive with fossil fuels. This overlooks that wind power has been cost competitive for a couple of decades now.

Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/figures/summary-for-policymakers/

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Figures: Summary for Policymakers

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Florian Ahrens

@pauleastwood although we can be happy about these costs, we shouldn’t forget that unit cost does not represent the cost of an energy system that runs entirely on renewable without demand side flexibility.