Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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Well, if you omit batteries then you are mostly true, although with covid there was a huge shortage of electronic components that would affect solar a lot, at least depending on where you live. Batteries is a big unknown now, because with all the demand for it, we simply can't build enough batteries to feed all the grids with it.
Alright, yeah, good point with the batteries. I'm hoping the batteries in electric cars will double up as storage for the grid (already happening today), but also that there's just enough redundancy with other renewables.