> As you said, Solar power is incredibly economical.
Not if you include the cost of needed storage.
Not if you include the cost of needed storage.
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lcoe-and-valu...
Sometime the sun goes away for more than 4hrs.
That may be OK for closed-ended systems (turn off the science at night and during storms), but not for open-ended systems with diverse user demand.
4hour batteries are competitive with gas peakers to match high demand during and after sunny times, but solar needs gas peakers or similar to over for non-sunny times.
everywhere? all at once? The grid is distributed, this is a solved problem. Most of what is needed now is to build the systems, storage, and transmission lines.