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Renewable Energy Cost Curves: 1980-2020

Is there anyone out there who can offer me ANY kind of power, much less wind, at $0.02/kwh? Maybe some of the bigger (and paid-off) Western hydro dams in a good rainfall year. Maybe.

You might get wind down to 2-3c if you could somehow find a wind source that delivers 80-90% capacity (i.e. blades are spinning 80-90% of the time).

And forget offshore wind -- you're either mired in NIMBYLimbo or talking $10k installed cost per kw. The ocean is the harshest operating environment on earth other than the interior of a volcano.