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85% renewable electricity system cheaper than renewing the current coal and gas : Comments
By Ben Rose, published 30/6/2016The modelling I present here focuses on electricity generation. It disproves two myths –that renewable electricity is not workable without baseload fossil fuelled power and that in any case it is too expensive.
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After we've built several large Gen 3 reactors I'd expect the LCOE to get down to ~$90 per Mwh. Batteries large or small need to add up to Twh capacity or at the very least tens of Gwh. There's no sign of that yet.