{"id":15750,"date":"2021-04-29T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=15750"},"modified":"2021-05-04T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T01:04:04","slug":"2021-04-29-solar-is-cheapest-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=15750","title":{"rendered":"2021-04-29 Solar Is &#8220;Insanely Cheapest Energy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/apr\/25\/insanely-cheap-energy-how-solar-power-continues-to-shock-the-world\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/apr\/25\/insanely-cheap-energy-how-solar-power-continues-to-shock-the-world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to the point where solar is the cheapest source of energy in the world in most places. This means we\u2019ve been trying to model a situation where the grid looks totally different today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1yqigsj\" style=\"box-sizing:inherit; margin:0px0px16px; padding:0px; border:0px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-weight:400; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:1.0625rem; line-height:1.5; font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,\" guardiantextegyptianwebgeorgiaserif=\"guardiantextegyptianwebgeorgiaserif\" baseline=\"vertical-align:baseline\" break-word=\"overflow-wrap:break-word\" rgb181818=\"color:rgb181818\" normal=\"white-space:normal\" _2text-indent0px=\"orphans:_2text-indent0px\" none=\"text-transform:none\" _2=\"widows:_2\" _0px=\"_-webkit-text-stroke-width:_0px\" rgb255255255=\"background-color:rgb255255255\" initial=\"text-decoration-color:initial\" left=\"text-align:left\">&#8221; This rapid radical reduction in the price of PV solar is a story about Chinese industrial might backed by American capital, fanned by European political sensibilities and made possible largely thanks to the pioneering work of an Australian research team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/apr\/25\/insanely-cheap-energy-how-solar-power-continues-to-shock-the-world Quote: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to the point where solar is the cheapest source of energy in the world in most places. This means we\u2019ve been trying to model a situation where the grid looks totally different today.\u201d &#8221; This rapid radical reduction in the price of PV solar is a story about Chinese industrial might<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=15750\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642,34,543],"tags":[1014,455],"class_list":["post-15750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","tag-lowest-cost","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15785,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750\/revisions\/15785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}