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by keebEz 2996 days ago
For new technologies, adoption curves can vary wildly, and for different reasons. When it comes to clean tech, PV and wind specifically, the adoption is dominated by sunsetting investments over a long horizon.

Other types of tech have much faster adoption cycles due to the lower cost of substitution. For each peak-hour kWh from PV comes at an increased cost of non-peak-hour kWh from non-PV (whether storage or generation).