https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054422... Figure 3
When used as the sole source of electricity solar clocks at 565 EUR/MWh. Nuclear, for comparison, is at 141 EUR/MWh.
When used as the sole source of electricity solar clocks at 565 EUR/MWh. Nuclear, for comparison, is at 141 EUR/MWh.
A MWh of solar is about 30 Euro/MWh if you levelize the capital costs.
> Nobody is suggesting to use solar as the sole source of electricity.
You weren't clear on what you propose.
Germany has a lot of solar. It's suppressing prices below the electricity price you would get with pure gas power generation.
Exempli gratia: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-household-powe...
And the proposal to fix this is more accounting games to transfer costs to different constituents.
There are reasons it might not work, not least of all political. But a link to a paper picking a bone with LCoE is talking past GP.