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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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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for doing the math! I think this was the video of the fella doing his water tank battery: https://youtu.be/CMR9z9Xr8GM?si=go28fQ6DYXyW1GTi