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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.

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

How 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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  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.

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