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by cm2187 144 days ago
Not sure about that. If you plot energy cost and % of wind power by country, it is highly correlated.
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Not if you compare states with similar levels of economic development, like US states or EU countries.

Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma have around 50% wind and 10 cent electricity.

When comparing EU states, the correlation is more about who taxes electricity and who builds wind. Comparing pre-tax prices has a very slight downward trend as the country has more wind.

You see a lot of propaganda graphs online that have the EU states clustered in the top right and a cluster of unlabelled Petro states and dictatorships who subsidize electricity in the other quadrant.

The intended implication is that you should emulate the countries they are afraid to name because it would make their graph ridiculous.

The causation is the other way. High energy prices have made wind and solar more viable.