CREDIT: U.N. and BNEF
The world built more renewables for far less money last year, report UN and Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
thinkprogress.org - by Joe Romm - April 6, 2017
Stunning drops in the cost of wind and solar energy have turned the global power market upside down . . .
. . . Unsubsidized renewables have become the cheapest source of new power — by far — in more and more countries, according to a new report from the United Nations and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
In just one year, the cost of solar generation worldwide dropped on average 17 percent, the report found. The average costs for onshore wind dropped 18 percent last year, while those for offshore wind fell a whopping 28 percent.
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Solar energy has plunged in price—where does it go from here?
A look forward to how we get to terawatts of solar power capacity.
arstechnica.com - by John Timmer - April 13, 2017
. . . An international team of energy experts makes an attempt to figure out where solar might be going out to the 2030s, when they expect we'll have terawatts' worth of photovoltaics on our grids.
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