The article discusses why LCOE is not a good estimate of the costs. Yes, combining different sources lowers the total cost (by damping intermittency). For Denmark it's offshore wind and solar in a 7 to 1 ratio (plus natural gas or biomethane power plants).

> Nobody is suggesting to use solar as the sole source of electricity.

You weren't clear on what you propose.

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konschubert 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://has-electricity-decoupled-yet.strommarktberatung.de

Germany has a lot of solar. It's suppressing prices below the electricity price you would get with pure gas power generation.

	▲	red75prime 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The electricity price is not decoupled from the gas price because there's not enough energy storage, wind turbines, interconnections (that is the energy grid can't function without natural gas). The cost of building (and operating) all this goes into SLCOE.

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reitzensteinm 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, I found the proposal clear and your response confusing.

There are reasons it might not work, not least of all political. But a link to a paper picking a bone with LCoE is talking past GP.

	▲	red75prime 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wanted to remind that "just add solar" comes with the costs that are rarely mentioned.

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konschubert 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was very clear, even before the edit. I wrote "reduce the gas bills". Not "cut the gas line".

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engineer_22 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Konschubert, it's widely reported that German energy prices are some of the highest in the world.

Exempli gratia: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-household-powe...

And the proposal to fix this is more accounting games to transfer costs to different constituents.