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Solar is now the cheapest electricity in history

Positive news as the cost/watt for solar continues to fall. Hopefully this trend continues, and these are important steps in the process of moving us to a different relationship with energy and society.

In other news, the IEA continues it’s grand tradition of rolling out almost completely useless energy modeling.

‘Cheapest’, that is, if you carefully exclude a large swathe of the more peripheral - but still essential - costs to keep it all going. Economists’ delusional jiggery-pokery doesn’t trump raw energy equations. EROEI is not gainsaid. The energy crisis continues…