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Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point | Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity (oilprice.com)
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[–] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

They already moved on to different tactics like restricting the ability to connect solar to the grid or simply burying all applications in red tape for years.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Idk, it's working pretty great for me.

    My experience: https://lemmy.world/post/32326227

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago*

    But you are not scalable.

    The companies that in my country have already applied for grid connections of more solar and battery capacity than would be needed in the next few years yet waiting and waiting and at some point just giving up would be.

    Oh, and now law changes will also kill all future plans as no one will build any more solar with their own money (or get loans from banks) after the decision if they can actually feed in their produced electricity is shifted to the control of grid providers all-well connected or subsidiaries with fossil-fuel focused energy companies.

    Economic viability means shit if it gets fought actively on the government level.

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