• Dyf_Tfh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    People really tend to forget that natural gas + variable renewable energies is the current cheapest/more profitable option, but is overall non sustainable.

    Storage + VRE is barely existent because energy provider aren’t incentivised to build it.

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      11 months ago

      Arg, my first reply was completely off topic. I thought this was a reply in another post.

      Yeah, it’s great that VRE is cheaper now, but we shouldn’t celebrate companies/countries for just taking the cheapest option. It drowns out the legitimate celebration of the companies/countries that are actually making hard decisions by funding renewables when they aren’t the cheapest option, investing in long-term R&D, taxing carbon, fixing bureaucratically-entrenched perverse incentive structures, etc.