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by kristjank 870 days ago
AFAIK, LCOE are known to be misleading when comparing electricity sources with different power characteristics and applications.

https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-not-all-e...

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Wind, with it's availability of ~60% is not massively different from other energy plants with their availability of 80 - 92%.

Solar is worse, but since most modern high quality tables include LCOE's for "solar" and "solar+battery" with very different numbers, it shouldn't be misleading.