Geothermal Just Proved It Can Compete With Solar-Plus-Storage on Price
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Geothermal Just Proved It Can Compete With Solar-Plus-Storage on Price
Geothermal has long been the clean, firm power source that was always a few breakthroughs away from being cheap enough to matter. Numbers buried in a Nevada utility filing suggest that day may have arrived. Joel Edwards, co-founder and CTO of geothermal developer Zanskar, put it bluntly earlier this month: "to all the geothermal believers out there, the flippening has come." In NV Energy's 2026 resource plan, three geothermal offers came in at $…
Geothermal Energy Undercuts Solar-Plus-Storage On Price In NV Energy's 2026 Resource Plan
Geothermal power has reached a pricing milestone, with average costs of $105.56 per megawatt-hour in NV Energy’s 2026 resource plan, undercutting competing solar-plus-storage proposals by roughly 7%. The result marks a significant turning point for an energy source that has long struggled to compete economically against the rapidly falling costs of solar and battery storage […]
In the sunny Nevada the geothermal beats the solar with batteries at 105 $/MWh: the economical reckoning between continuous supply and grid limits. The article Nevada: geothermal beats the solar with batteries. The accounting on energy costs comes from Economic Scenarios.
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