From Just Have a Think.
There’s a big schism among energy system analysts right now. Some experts advocate for electricity grids running on 100% solar, wind and battery energy storage. Others argue that this is nothing more than delusional ‘hopium’. But with cost curves of all these technologies following exponential trajectories, is it now realistic to project that we may soon reach this lofty goal?
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Reference Links:
Link to access Robert Idel’s paper on LFSCOE
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360544222018035?fr=RR-2&ref=pdf_download&rr=956c6b87992876f0
EMBER paper on 100% solar and batteries
Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything
RethinkX
https://www.rethinkx.com/
Link to David Orban’s podcast with Tony Seba and Jamie Arbib
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