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Below about a thousand dollars a kilowatt of capital cost, the right way to run a plant is intermittently on raw solar with no batteries at all.

Drawn from what Casey Handmer said

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batteries Storage as the thing that decides how much intermittent generation is worth building.

On the topicHow cheap does solar get, and what does that change?under our view: The grid stops being a grid once the panels are nearly free

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What Casey Handmer actually said

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  1. Casey Handmer

    Physicist, formerly at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    For loads below $1000/kW, intermittent operation with some modest solar array oversizing is the winning strategy. Above $1000/kW, we charge and discharge batteries daily to run them.

    Where this was said

    ↗Solar and batteries for generic use casescaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

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