People really tend to forget that natural gas + variable renewable energies is the current cheapest/more profitable option, but is overall non sustainable.
Storage + VRE is barely existent because energy provider aren't incentivised to build it.
Arg, my first reply was completely off topic. I thought this was a reply in another post.
Yeah, it's great that VRE is cheaper now, but we shouldn't celebrate companies/countries for just taking the cheapest option. It drowns out the legitimate celebration of the companies/countries that are actually making hard decisions by funding renewables when they aren't the cheapest option, investing in long-term R&D, taxing carbon, fixing bureaucratically-entrenched perverse incentive structures, etc.
People really tend to forget that natural gas + variable renewable energies is the current cheapest/more profitable option, but is overall non sustainable.
Storage + VRE is barely existent because energy provider aren't incentivised to build it.
Arg, my first reply was completely off topic. I thought this was a reply in another post.
Yeah, it's great that VRE is cheaper now, but we shouldn't celebrate companies/countries for just taking the cheapest option. It drowns out the legitimate celebration of the companies/countries that are actually making hard decisions by funding renewables when they aren't the cheapest option, investing in long-term R&D, taxing carbon, fixing bureaucratically-entrenched perverse incentive structures, etc.