New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    There’s an equally buried link to a death by powerpoint that made me pray for a blackout before i could get anywhere close to understanding how that bar graph was constructed.

    I can’t vouch for the following being a necessarily better source, but this one seem a lot more upfront about some of their assumptions and sensitivities. In this adding storage to wind is seems to be +tens of dollars per MWh; a fair amount more than the +1-3 dollars per MWh shown in the cleantech article.
    https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/

    So i’d like to know where these cheap battery cost assumption comes from - is it proven tech, available at scale , at that price?
    just seems a bit too good to be true.