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Batteries at Parity With Baseload Coal, Gas and Nuclear

By alternatives, Batteries, climate solutions, economics, Solutions, Uncategorized

Bloomberg NEF – Battery Power’s Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas March 26, 2019 It’s happened, decades ahead of schedule. Lithium-ion batteries are at parity with baseload coal, gas and nuclear.  Those new gigabattery factories are responsible. it’s amazing what giga scaling can do to costs.  The latest cost plummet was 35 percent since…

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Globally, Wind Energy to Be Cost Competitive by 2016

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Already competitive with subsidies in many places, already competitive in several places without subsidies, Especially to natural gas, wind energy will be competitive world-wide with gas, oil and coal in five years. Bloomberg New Energy Finance issued a statement on November 10 with this news. Wind energy will drop 12% in the next five years…

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