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I would argue that subsidized solar panels and batteries from China are the the most important factor. If renewables weren’t economically competitive we’d see approximately zero deployment.

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Not to forget storage solutions have become viable as well. Generating renewable power is only part of the equation. It has a large variable that needed to be filled for the equation to fully compute waiting for storage.

The availability of cheap alternatives to oil is completely part of the solution.

Convincing Joe Public to understand yesterday switching to those is in their best interest is also necessary and very hard to do.

Mission Acomplished.

Yes but you could argue that one key driving force behind their policies is the knowledge that a Republican president was going to mess up their oil supply sooner or later.

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