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According to that graph, onshore wind has been cheaper than fossil fuels since 1995. What will be different about the next 20 years that this price difference will suddenly cause a huge surge in adoption, when it has already been cheaper for decades without making a huge impact?

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Do you mean 2005?

Have you seen a graph of wind generation?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/wind-generation?tab=chart...

For solar it's 2015 that it curved upward: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption?...

I can't answer that and aslo I know people who are "deeper into this", this being energy economics, that can't agree either. The fact is that the bids for offshore wind has been going down for a while now. https://ieefa.org/articles/offshore-wind-prices-fall-new-rec...

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