“The authorities are missing in action,” said one campaigner. “If they won’t step in to stop illegal, planet-wrecking coal mining, we will.”
“The authorities are missing in action,” said one campaigner. “If they won’t step in to stop illegal, planet-wrecking coal mining, we will.”
That’s because this stat is bullshit and highly context dependent.
When you have renewable power at the same time as demand and demand, renewables are cheaper than coal.
When winter hits, the sun sets, and your baseline power is done, renewables aren’t cheap. They simply don’t function. Energy storage, meanwhile, is crazy expensive.
Utilities use the cheapest power they can. They aren’t just rejecting green energy for fun.