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How solar energy became cheap

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This is a summary of How solar energy became cheap by Greg Nemet, it's on this blog as the story of solar has many lessons we can apply to CDR as I'm sure you'll pick up. If you did want to jump straight to the part that talks directly about the lessons we could apply to DAC you can click here. Technology has a number of impressive stories of progress but few rival the story of solar photovoltaics (PV). From costing ＄300,000 for a mWh in 1957 costs have fallen on average 14% a year leading to current costs in sunny places to be as low as ＄17 per mWh, or in other words the world’s cheapest electricity. Solar has achieved this despite competing in maybe the most commoditized market in the world, electricity, and when it started its costs were far far above those of its competition like oil or coal. For this reason solar holds the story of how new technologies can find their place bit by bit and, through the actions of governments and consumers all over the world, push forward until th

How solar energy became cheap By Neil Hacker More posts ➚ ⊕ This is a summary of How solar energy became cheap by Greg Nemet , it's on this blog as the story of solar has many lessons we can apply to CDR as I'm sure you'll pick up. If you did want to jump straight to the part that talks directly about the lessons we could apply to DAC you can click here . Technology has a number of impressive stories of progress but few rival the story of solar photovoltaics (PV). From costing ＄300,000 for a mWh in 1957 costs have fallen on average 14% a year leading to current costs in sunny places to b

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