Nevada Solar Field Produces Lower Cost Power

Greentech Media reports that a solar plant in Nevada is now able to produce power at the same or lower cost as fossil fuel burning plants.

It’s essential to remember that there isn’t one technology that’s going to wean the country off dirty and (when accounted for holistically) expensive fossil fuels, it’s a number of different technologies. Solar is an excellent options for the parts of the world that receive the most sun, wind has its place as done geothermal and on and on. It’s easy to poke holes in any single alternative fuel or energy source, but when looked at as a bloc, we see that these technologies have the potential to be much less expensive overall than fossil fuels, when one calculates the hidden cost of fossil fuels. Hard data such as the Nevada plant shows that continued development is going to produce a true revolution in power sources as the economics become clearer.