The price of wind keeps falling and at the end of this year wind will be cheaper than coal and natural gas in pretty much all of the world, and in the U.S. it will be so without any tax subsidy at all. Despite this wind retains on if the majors grievance against renewable, in efficiency
Wind ordinary situations is inherently too unreliable to power a nations grids, coal hydro and nuclear being the mainstays, whilst solar and wind are used as auxiliaries. To this day steel production and other heavy industries still depend on coal. Somalia’s potential to generate might be extra-ordinary, and I’m hopeful of it but without looking at this through the rose tinted lens of clean and cheap renewable energy, is it feasible ?
In theory adding lots of wind and solar to a grid will reduce prices because wind and sometimes solar can sell electricity at a low price.
In actuality, is there actual evidence that a grid that adds significant amounts of solar and wind (above a certain percentage) consistently results in a medium long term decrease in electricity prices once all other factors like inflation are corrected for
There's a huge market for "low quality" intermittent power like wind.
National grids might require something more stable but factories don't.
They can also run grid sized factories profitability.
Like I mentioned above... Let's get the factories powered up first with a viable cheap energy source and then we'll talk about our other demands.
A single 5 MW setup could lower up a small industrial zone with a dozen small factories.