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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17h \ on: It's Time to Build a New Grid 🏴‍☠️🌞🔋 ideasfromtheedge
I’ve followed the cost of solar carefully for over a decade and observed a Moore’s law like relationship - every doubling in cumulative capacity deployed has decreased the LCOE (levelized cost of electricity) by ~30-40%. Just like clockwork.
Lithium-ion batteries have a similar deployment > cost relationship with a slightly less steep curve: every doubling of cumulative capacity leads to a 20-25% reduction in the end cost of electricity storage.
Those numbers are incredible.
I haven't matured into a solar bull mostly because the end-to-end costs, environmental and otherwise, especially wrt to storage, are not as obvious. Without getting a firm grip on that stuff, it's always felt more responsible to approach energy with conservatism.
Has anyone written a good impartial analysis on end-to-end costs of solar?
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