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Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid


The cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But that’s just Act 1. We won’t stop building solar at the limits of the grid - we’ll build a lot more. This post explains why we'll keep building more,

Source: European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators 2023 Market Monitoring Report Saturation reason #2: Grid capacity To be clear, a lot of the electricity transferred between solar farms and big batteries will still go through parts of the local distribution grid. Rather than simply supplying energy in the form it’s consumed (electricity), intermittent solar is so fricking cheap that it could manipulate atoms into fuels for subsequent consumption.

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