Pofarmer - 2/10/2026 20:59

Solar will continue without subsidies, it's cost per KWH is just too competitive. Solar and wind are currently the cheapest power you can generate. You can run solar during the day, If you over run put it in batteries, or a form of pumped storage, whatever. At night crank up the much more expensive to run Nat Gas peaking plants or coal units or whatever. 


The "costs" of solar/wind being cheap is a JOKE.

To get an accurate cost of wind/solar you need to include the cost of building 100% redundancy (usually natural gas generation).    A conveniently ignored fact.


We constantly hear "Solar will continue without subsidies, it's cost per KWH is just too competitive" but anytime anyone suggests that solar subsidies should end it is always met with "WE CAN'T DO THAT!".     So lets just say I think the notion that solar will continue to get built at the scale it is currently being built is complete BS.     The solar production tax credits are worth as much as the actual power is worth on the wholesale market.   

That would be like if the govt was giving corn farmers a $4/bushel tax credit, not a deduction, a TAX CREDIT.    In the words of Lloyd and Harry, "that's as good as money, sir" 

Edited by Kooiker 2/10/2026 21:30