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Solar Photovoltaics with Battery Storage Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants (cleantechnica.com)
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I'll note that aggregate system cost still benefits significantly from including wind and other non-solar sources of energy; having a mix of different intermittent sources (and some firm generation such as geothermal) means less storage is needed.

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[–] MrMakabar 4 points 3 months ago

Also you have to consider conventional hydro. The reservoirs have considerable storage capacity, which is obviously limited by a lot of factors.