Wind Living in Solar’s World: A Strategy for the US Wind Industry
Greentech Media | May 16, 2019
Wind’s fight with fossil fuel is transitioning to crafting a strategy to cope with solar. As the energy transition unfolds in the United States, it introduces new power market dynamics that fundamentally favor solar power over wind.The first portion of our analysis is informed by the net cost of new entry for wind and solar. Net CONE goes one step beyond LCOE, introducing the impacts of renewables penetration and the subsequent impact on local power prices to derive the attractiveness of one technology versus another.