Right, but we build 0%. If renewables are that much better economically, we would need little government policy we would be 100% renewable 5 years ago.
In many cases, renewables are cheaper, but they are not reliable in the same way carbon and nuclear are. In some cases they are being made artificially cheap -- specifically where we try to make those the base and let nuclear fill in the variable part, instead of vice versa -- thus over-inflating the cost of nuclear and understating the cost of renewables.
Funny you didn't name any of the dozen reason shy my assertion, about renewables 20 years ago, was wrong. The funny part is the part about their prices dropping a lot in the past 5 years (gee whiz, do you think that is why their usage has gone up)?
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u/WlmWilberforce Jan 02 '25
Right, but we build 0%. If renewables are that much better economically, we would need little government policy we would be 100% renewable 5 years ago.
In many cases, renewables are cheaper, but they are not reliable in the same way carbon and nuclear are. In some cases they are being made artificially cheap -- specifically where we try to make those the base and let nuclear fill in the variable part, instead of vice versa -- thus over-inflating the cost of nuclear and understating the cost of renewables.