Remember who bashes wind turbines every time he speaks in public.
Remember who stopped the development of EV charging infrastructure.
Remember who prevented the most cost-effective EVs from being available in the US
Remember who is attacking the Countries with massive oil reserves
Source: RacePretend1862
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No, we don’t need it. We use it because those who profit from it tell us we need it.
Do those numbers take into account the differing costs of the transmission lines needed for each case? If you have a coal plant and replace it with gas turbines, the grid part stays the same. If you replace it with solar panels miles away, you have to build new transmission lines.
The levelized cost of energy is not a good metric for comparing energy prices. Use something else
This is just a political post. Oil/fuel oil aren’t even included on the charts. And combined cycle gas looks like a pretty good complement to wind/solar by these metrics.
For my home’s boiler, without gas, it’s a no-go, and for my car, which isn’t exactly new, I’m waiting for more efficient solid-state batteries before switching to electric, so yes, we still need oil.
The fundamental problem with LCOE is that it doesn’t at all take into account time of delivery.
And the grid doesn’t benefit from more supply at 2pm when loads are relatively lower. The grid and anyone seriously involved in electricity markets care about 1 major thing. Net peak load. If you aren’t helping during net peak load you are not helping.
Solar/wind is great with batteries. Without them they are a huge drag on electric prices because they force combined cycle and coal to fluctuate into lower heat rates and become less efficient.
And unfortunately solar plus batteries are currently more expensive than combined cycle. That gap is shrinking and likely will change in the coming years, but hasn’t yet.
Just think if these included the externalized cost of the CO2 they emit.