Ramez Naam
Author and clean-energy investor who has been publishing dated forecasts of solar, wind, battery and electric-vehicle costs since 2011, and publishing the corrections when they came in low.
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· held 5 years
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Their words thenAnd beyond that, by the time solar scale has doubled 4 more times, to the equivalent of 16% of today’s electricity demand (and somewhat less of future demand), we should see solar at 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas, and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsBoth of those forecasts were wrong. Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including me – predicted.