India hits 150 GW solar milestone

Just the beginning:

> Battery storage is now cheap enough to unleash India’s full solar potential

> Ember’s analysis shows how solar and battery storage can meet as much as 90% of India’s electricity demand at lower LCOE than the average power purchase costs in most states.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688164 (4 days ago, no discussion yet)

Direct link;

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/battery-storage-is-...

Pretty much every major country has seen the writing on the wall and are pivoting hard to renewables. It's no longer even about climate change, or some other lofty goal. The reason(esp for India and China) is plain and simple energy independence. Investment into renewables pretty much guarantees long term energy independence.

It's mystifying as to why the United States is firmly trying to pull in the opposite direction and leaning hard on coal and other fossil fuels. Is it because the US is the largest oil producer in the world now? But even that doesn't make sense as it simply does not have the refining capacity needed to handle the volume of extracted crude.

Why would the US deliberately risk getting behind on the first major shift in the energy landscape in a hundred years?