<story><title>Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/solar-cheap-energy-coal-gas-renewables-climate-change-environment-sustainability</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>isolli</author><text>I cannot help but think of this tweet [0].&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;AukeHoekstra&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;866313289306963969&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;AukeHoekstra&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;866313289306963969&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In short, solar production had increased steeply between 2000 and 2015, but each and every year, the IEA predicted that production would plateau. Each and every year, they were wrong. And yet they did it again the following year.</text></comment>
<story><title>Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA</title><url>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/solar-cheap-energy-coal-gas-renewables-climate-change-environment-sustainability</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>travisoneill1</author><text>&amp;gt; The rise of variable renewable sources means that there is an increasing need for electricity grid flexibility, the IEA notes. “Robust electricity networks, dispatchable power plants, storage technologies and demand response measures all play vital roles in meeting this,” it says.&lt;p&gt;Which is why it&amp;#x27;s not really the cheapest.  Fossil fuel and nuclear power don&amp;#x27;t have these associated costs.</text></comment>