This is how cheap solar in the right places can be. Look at Australia’s insolation...
https://solargis.com/resources/free-maps-and-gis-data?locality=australia-and-oceania
That outback has enough insolation to power the whole planet multiple times over. Not just electricity ALL energy use. That giant thermonuclear reactor in the sky hits Australia with 6+ kWh per day part a meter over a continent sized area. It’s measured in petajoules or exajoules numbers so large mouth breathers struggle to even visualize them.
Solar is so cheap when it comes to raw electrons you can string a 4000+ km high voltage DC cable across oceans and still sell it at reasonable retail prices. This should squash any nonsense that you cannot send power long distances HVDC could make a global energy network even over links of 10,000km at a million plus volts the losses are acceptable when you have sub $10 per MWh electrons.
This is a whole new world its the 21st century not the 1800s with coal and steam ships. Only the Indians and Chinese subjugated populations will tolerate the air and water pollution of air fired coal combustion it is, and never was, or will be clean. Even with huge 100 million dollar sized scrubbers it cannot due to physics be as clean as gas. Only the lack of the people ability to force the government and their corporations to clean up stack exhaust is why India and China have coal plants if they had to be as clean as gas turbines they couldn’t do so and would be shut down , right fully so. Coal is best left in the dust bin of 19th century history. No love lost with any real environmental or atmospheric scientist who can do freshman level chemistry and math the on the stack exhaust products and ash piles.
For example, in Australia they're starting to impose a "sun tax" on home solar users who put power onto the grid. Even though the left there pushed for people to get solar in part to help the grid, now the left is punishing people for it. There is simply no pleasing the left.
Therefore, IMHO it's best to do solar in a self-contained environment (decentralized solar). For the past 2 years I've been selling power to the grid (unlike the first 2 years I had solar). I have the means to change a configuration setting on my inverter and quit selling power to the grid if the regulations change against me. I spent a little extra for inverters with the feature to disable the grid sell feature, for the sole purpose of me having the final say on if my solar can be regulated by the grid regulators. If the regulations are in my favor to sell a little power to the grid, fine. If the regulations change and make it not in my favor, that's fine too.
Last year I put 4,208 kWh onto the grid, and pulled 4,386 kWh from the grid (pulling a net 178 kWh from the grid across the entire year).