Hacker News with Generative AI: Energy Costs

Global Cost of Renewables to Continue Falling in 2025 as China Extends Lead (bnef.com)
New York/ London, February 6, 2025 – The cost of clean power technologies such as wind, solar and battery technologies are expected to fall further by 2-11% in 2025, breaking last year’s record. According to a latest report by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF), new wind and solar farms are already undercutting new coal and gas plants on production cost in almost every market globally.
Renewable Energy, Energy Costs, China, Global Economics
7 points by toomuchtodo 14 days ago | 2 comments
Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities (burke.dev)
I don't think PG&E ratepayers understand how much higher the rates they pay are than what it actually costs PG&E to generate and transmit the electricity to their house. The average PG&E electricity charge now starts at 40 cents per kilowatt hour and goes up from there. Silicon Valley Power, Santa Clara's utility company, is getting power to customers for 17 cents per kilowatt hour. Sacramento's utility company charges about the same.
Utilities, Energy Costs, Public Utilities, California
420 points by kevinburke 14 days ago | 395 comments
Germans turn to balcony solar panels to save money (france24.com)
Berlin (AFP) – As snowflakes gently settled on his balcony solar panels on a cold winter's day, Berliner Jens Sax checked his smartphone to see how much electricity they were generating.
Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Germany, Energy Costs, Climate Change
66 points by vinni2 44 days ago | 78 comments
Electricity That Costs Nothing–Or Even Less? It's Happening More and More (wsj.com)
In 2023, 44% of EU electricity was generated by renewables.
Renewable Energy, Energy Costs, Europe
19 points by Bostonian 152 days ago | 21 comments
German industry turns to solar in race to cut energy costs (reuters.com)
Germany, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Costs, Industry
6 points by rustoo 234 days ago | 0 comments
Cheapest source of fossil fuel generation is double the cost of solar (pv-magazine-usa.com)
Solar Energy, Fossil Fuels, Energy Costs
64 points by doener 254 days ago | 69 comments