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by rasz 424 days ago
>solar photovoltaic (PV) generation was 56% less expensive than the weighted average fossil fuel-fired alternatives

Only if you need electricity during the day.

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I thought solar + battery was cheaper the nat gas now.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lcoe-and-valu...

(If not it soon will be.)

Depends where you live. If you live here, sun wouldn't be up for a few months at a time, so the battery would have to be pretty big. And it can easily drop below -30C for long periods
A very small % of the global population lives in those conditions. We can thus safely ignore it as an edge case for now, and still solve for the vast majority of emissions reduction
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