{"id":7085,"date":"2020-10-23T16:12:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:12:18","slug":"solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=7085","title":{"rendered":"Solar is now \u2018cheapest electricity in history\u2019, confirms IEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The world\u2019s best solar power schemes now offer the \u201ccheapest\u2026electricity in history\u201d with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea\">Solar is now \u2018cheapest electricity in history\u2019, confirms IEA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Careful with that headline!\u00a0 If I understand the article, solar is still only cheaper if financing is subsidized by the government.\u00a0 But that might not be a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s best solar power schemes now offer the \u201ccheapest\u2026electricity in history\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,140,177],"class_list":["post-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-energy","tag-paul","tag-solar","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}