11 years after a celebrated opening solar plant faces a bleak future

4 RyanShook 2 5/27/2025, 2:34:55 AM apnews.com ↗

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toomuchtodo · 1d ago
PV solar got cheap very fast, obsoleting thermal solar faster than expected (as well as higher than expected operations and maintenance costs at this installation).

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-...

timonoko · 1d ago
Remember seeing such plant in 1980 in Nevada. Train conductor pointed it out and joked about cooked birds too. Very strange they built a new one, just when 10 watt panel was reduced from $100 to $10.