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Yep!
My envelope arithmetic says 6.3 cents a kWh overall for the 4 hour system, presuming 3 cents a kWh for the PV and 10 years of initial battery capacity as an integrated average. That is a *very* enticing price for utilities if it lets them avoid demand charges from their wholesalers. It also sort of explains how Tesla is planning to give such a marvelous energy cost to the Semi industry.
 
Solar plus storage for a dime in Hawaii

Lots of new solar plus storage projects in Hawaii.
Costs come in high but power will be sold at cost to consumers... 8 to 12 cents which is cheaper than current petrol generators.

In 2015 Hawaii passed legislation requiring electricity providers to generate 100% renewable energy by 2045, with multiple islands projecting that they’ll hit 100% renewable energy before 2045. Molokai expects to be 100% powered by renewables by 2020, and all of the islands – when taking into account customer-sited generation – will hit this mark sometime in the 2030s. And for good measure, last winter island leaders gathered to pledge to also move ground transportation to 100% renewable energy by 2045.
 
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Florida Lawmaker Again Files Bill That Would Help Break Monopoly-Solar Stranglehold

Another attempt to break the Florida utility monopoly stranglehold.

In most states, it's legal for property owners to sell home-generated solar power to others, including tenants. This is usually called a "power-purchase agreement" — your landlord, for example, might put some solar panels on top of your apartment building and charge a dirt-cheap rate to buy power from her or him, instead of from the local power company.

But thanks to a state law that favors the state's ultrapowerful energy oligopoly, Florida remains one of the last four states where this sort of relationship is basically illegal. According to state Statute 366.02, almost anyone who sells power in Florida is considered a "public utility" and subject to the same rules as a major, multibillion-dollar energy conglomerate.
 
US will see more than 8 GW of solar come online this year
Plus 164 GWac in utility interconnection grids.
8 GW is pathetic, but
On New Year’s Day, pv magazine reported there are 139 GWac of solar projects in the interconnection queues of six grid operators. Since that time, figures from the Southwest Power Pool have pushed the total up to 164 GWac – and bear in mind that doesn’t cover the South or most of the Mountain West.
is not if it actually gets built in the next few years.

What fraction in the queue can we expect to turn into live projects ?
 
8 GW is pathetic, but
is not if it actually gets built in the next few years.

What fraction in the queue can we expect to turn into live projects ?
in many ways solar development is still a ‘Wild West’ industry and entails heavy work collecting data from every developer. There is also the complication that projects don’t always happen on the timelines developers predict.

As far as the grid queus go, I think most of these will be built but the timeline may be more than a year
 
As far as the grid queus go, I think most of these will be built but the timeline may be more than a year
Googling turned up one statement by the NE ISO that 70% of projects in queue do not see the light of day. I have no idea about other regions or if PV is atypical. Since the PV subsidy is dropping in 2020 I suppose that could mean that the projects will be built if at all possible ... or it means that developers took a place in line "just in case."

The US needs about 2 TW of new PV/Wind in the next 10-15 years to replace oil and coal/NG so they better get cracking
 
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Solar-Plus-Storage Beats Combined Cycle Gas in Jordan and Morocco

Solar cheaper than the most efficient NG plant.

The fact that solar was still competitive with the most efficient gas technology after adding battery storage, which bumps up the cost by 126 percent, was “quite big news,” said Rory McCarthy, senior storage analyst for Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.

The firm’s latest figures show the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for solar-plus-storage ranging between around $60 and $100 per megawatt-hour across five Middle East and African countries: Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, South Africa and United Arab Emirates (UEA).