As usual this where Bloomberg acts as Solar is similar to NG. Solar and Wind are widely dependent on location. Your results of NG in Phoenix or Chicago are going to be more or less same - you cannot say that for Solar.
At the right places Solar is profitable - but at the grid interface level its not same as having NG. For all the solar panels that are visible and there are countless "invisible" massive diesel generator back-ups and an inefficiently used NG base-load generator somewhere.
Its very rare Solar-Wind get their baseload from hydro (its possible). But again, HN being HN .. Ye Ye Ye!
These headlines make people think some how ONG is replacable and all it takes moar and moar Solar and Wind, and there is nothing farther from truth.
The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, its illusion of knowledge.
Solar and wind as you said are widely dependent on location; they have the courtesy of also being widely dependent on the time of the day, and the forecast that day.
The price angle is not the correct one to estimate quality of an energy source. When the wind blows and the sun shines, NG is cheap because we overproduce and we have to get rid of MWh. Germany even reaches negative prices quite regularly.
At the right places Solar is profitable - but at the grid interface level its not same as having NG. For all the solar panels that are visible and there are countless "invisible" massive diesel generator back-ups and an inefficiently used NG base-load generator somewhere.
Its very rare Solar-Wind get their baseload from hydro (its possible). But again, HN being HN .. Ye Ye Ye!
These headlines make people think some how ONG is replacable and all it takes moar and moar Solar and Wind, and there is nothing farther from truth.
The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, its illusion of knowledge.