https://about.bnef.com/blog/global-cost-of-renewables-to-continue-falling-in-2025-as-china-extends-manufacturing-lead-bloombergnef/ The cost of clean power technologies such as wind, solar and battery technologies are expected to fall further by 2-11% in 2025, breaking last year’s record. According to a latest report by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF), new wind and solar farms are already undercutting new coal and gas plants on production cost in almost every market globally. Meanwhile, China’s clean technology manufacturing overcapacity has led to rising protectionism in the form of import tariffs by countries to avoid cheap imports upending their own energy markets.
Trade barriers could temporarily stall cost declines, but BNEF still expects the levelized cost of electricity for clean technologies to fall 22-49% by 2035.
BNEF’s Levelized Cost of Electricity report indicates that the global benchmark cost for battery storage projects fell by a third in 2024 to $104 per megawatt-hour (MWh), as a glut in supply due to slower electric vehicle sales led to cheaper prices for battery packs. Meanwhile, the cost of a typical fixed-axis solar farm fell by 21% globally last year. Modules were sold at or below the cost of production, with no signs of the overcapacity in the solar supply chain easing in 2025. Batteries will cross the $100/MWh watershed in 2025, while global benchmarks for wind and solar generation are also set to fall 4% and 2%, respectively.
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“New solar plants, even without subsidies, are within touching distance of new US gas plants. This is remarkable because US gas prices are only a quarter of prevailing gas prices in Europe and Asia. It really raises the bar on what is possible even in the current market, said Amar Vasdev, lead author of the report. “This opens up the likelihood that solar will become even more compelling in the coming years, especially if the US starts exporting liquified natural gas and exposes its protected gas market to global price competition.” China’s abundance of clean-tech manufacturing capacity was a key driver behind cost declines last year and has a major impact on project economics at home and abroad. On average, the country can produce a megawatt-hour of electricity from major power-generating technologies 11-64% cheaper than other markets. For example, power generated from onshore wind turbines costs around 24% less than the global benchmark of $38 per megawatt-hour. While wind turbine prices in China have been falling, they have increased elsewhere since 2020. BNEF’s turbine price index shows component costs coming down again in 2025, but manufacturers are keeping prices high to improve margins. Although clean power technologies have improved markedly over the last few decades, there is still room for further technological and economic efficiencies. Looking to 2035, BNEF’s global benchmark LCOEs falls 26% for onshore wind, 22% for offshore wind, 31% for fixed-axis PV and almost 50% for battery storage.
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“China is exporting green energy tech so cheaply that the rest of the world is thinking about erecting barriers to protect their own industries, said Matthias Kimmel, head of Energy Economics at BNEF. “But the overall trend in cost reductions is so strong that nobody, not even President Trump, will be able to halt it.” BNEF’s Levelized Cost of Electricity, now in its sixteenth year, provides the industry standard for the cost of electricity generation, covering 29 technologies in over 50 countries.
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>>1382041 luckily trump is signing orders to prevent this shit from going up in america. none of this big green poison is ever going to poison this nations blood and soil. our blood is oil and drilling is how we fuck. oil now, oil tomorrow, oil forever.
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>this is what trump supporters actually believe
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>>1382048 >he says, as he coughs and chokes in the smog filled streets filled with cars running on gas he will no longer be able to afford Anonymous
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>>1382069 2 more weeks until americans can't afford gas
you can fool most of the people most of the time
you can fool most of the people most of the time Fri 07 Feb 2025 10:12:33 No. 1382085 Report >>1382048 >oil forever. I agree, and I ain't even trolling. I have no children so I don't care about the future, just what makes the rest of my life more comfortable. I imagine that this Anon is Young and and an idiot and Ze lives long enough to have the people of color surround Zis house when Ze is old and decrepit and take all Zis stuff and Ze dies from Heat prostation exposed to the elements with no air conditioning.
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>>1382069 China’s air has way more smog than America’s and they continue to build more new coal power plants than anyone else in the world. China doesn’t believe green energy or cares about the environment, they purely just want to own this industry.
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>>1382041 Consider this, Elongated Muskrat: what's to stop ol' Xi and the CCP from nationalizing, thus taking into absolute state control, your Tesla Gigafactory in China? All the new EVs being produced there that are infinitely more reliable than Tesla's.
You could always fund the building of one in USA to replace that if you love that country so much, certainly as much as white Americans in need of jobs. Amirite, Musky?
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>>1382085 >I don't care about the future, just what makes the rest of my life more comfortable is it the oil keeping you comfortable anon, or is it the telling yourself you don't care about the future?
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>>1382527 >that are infinitely more reliable than Tesla's. Doubt
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>>1382540 >DankPods buys 2017 Nissan Leaf from Japan. Unlike all his other ICE cars, nothing goes wrong with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzHhU4EorOM >Trump with iPhone made in China >Musk with Teslas powered by batteries made in China >the above & >>1382540 thinking Apple & Tesla products are somehow better than Huawei & BYD Auto Doubt
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>>1382048 Why the fuck do you like oil so much?