He wrote five years ago that solar would be the cheapest option by 2018, expecting it to go below 6 cents a kWh by that time. Now Bloomberg reports on the latest auction results in Mexico, where solar averaged 4.05 cents. That beats wind, which averaged 4.39 cents in the same auction. And it beats by a substantial margin what van der Leun expected two years from now. While that alone is not enough to solve the climate crisis, it sure helps.
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