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April 13, 2021 You are here: Home / Australia / No Contest: Never Reliable Wind & Solar Can’t Compete with Ever Reliable Coal-Fired Power No Contest: Never Reliable Wind & Solar Can’t Compete with Ever Reliable Coal-Fired Power Then, along came coal-fired power, and they were history.   Renewables acolytes have been massaging the numbers for years, in an attempt to show that wind and solar power are the cheapest of all. The standard bag of tricks includes ignoring the capital cost of having every single (unreliable) megawatt of wind or solar constantly backed up by another (reliable) megawatt of coal, gas, nuclear or hydro; refusing to acknowledge the cost to power consumers of mandated targets, tax breaks and/or massive direct subsidies that exclusively benefit wind and solar; ignoring the additional transmission costs of bringing intermittent and diffuse sources of energy from remote locations (where they’re produced) to the cities where the power is consumed; and dis

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