Really happy to see Rollie on Lemmy, dude has been putting out quality content for awhile now
Are electric utilities replacing coal and natural gas plants with solar farms? I’ve heard that solar power is now the cheapest, or at least one of the cheapest, ways to generate electricity, so you’d think electric utilities would be jumping on the opportunity to cut their costs.
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I think we’re combining two related, but separate industries, here. I understand why fossil fuel producers want to continue to produce fossil fuels. That’s the product they sell. I get that, but what’s still not totally clear to me is why more electric utilities aren’t switching. Utilities don’t sell fossil fuels, they sell electricity. The utilities are the buyers of fossil fuels, they are the customers of the fossil fuel producers, and if there’s a cheaper way of generating the electricity they sell, I would think they’d want to switch. From what you’ve told me, it sounds like some utilities aren’t switching because solar isn’t the cheapest way to generate electricity everywhere, yet. So, what would it take for solar to become cheap enough for all utilities to make the switch?
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