> “A large-scale natural gas-generating plant can supply electricity for around 6 cents per kilowatt-hour. Rooftop solar electricity costs, without subsidies, around 30 cents per kilowatt-hour, or five times as much.”
It’s always good to question things but this article appears a little biased but still good content for discussion.
What I noticed is solar panels generate electricity for much less than 30 cents per kwh and then there is solar water preheating which nets huge savings.
The other point I see missing is that natural gas utilities are as far I know always local monopolies that do as they please. That’s why I booted them off my property. If I need NG for cooking or heating, there are other ways to get it or gas derivatives such as through local tanks.
Rooftop solar is expensive. But utility scale solar is rapidly falling in desert regions.
In the US south west— Utility scale solar has fallen to under <$.03@kw/hr. Battery back up ads another $01.@kw/hr and you get <$.04@kw/hr.
Those numbers are on pace to be cut in half in three years