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Solar Photovoltaics with Battery Storage Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants (cleantechnica.com)
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I'll note that aggregate system cost still benefits significantly from including wind and other non-solar sources of energy; having a mix of different intermittent sources (and some firm generation such as geothermal) means less storage is needed.

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[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I think it doesn't matter too much. Suboptimal energy storage is still much better than none.