<story><title>Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal</title><url>http://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-and-battery-storage-cheaper-than-coal-83151/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Notable:
&amp;quot;And these prices do not represent just a few one-off, left field offers. All told, there were more than 100 bids combining wind and solar, or both, with battery storage, and 20 gigawatts of such capacity.&lt;p&gt;The “median” means that half the bids were cheaper than the median price cited above.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I realize most readers of HN know what a median is, but the fact that this was not just the lowest bid in each group was worth highlighting.</text></comment>
<story><title>Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal</title><url>http://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-and-battery-storage-cheaper-than-coal-83151/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wonderwonder</author><text>We live in a strange time where our access to clean power is limited not by technology or product cost but by politics, dedicated lobbying dollars and the entrenched old guard in federal but more importantly state and local level government.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m still waiting on my clean coal...</text></comment>