alt Hacker NewsIn addition to being cheaper, you never hear about a massive sun or wind spill and the prices never change due to events thousands of miles away.
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Yep, that's one of the reasons it is called "green" energy. On top of renewability, the environmental impact of production is radically different from fossil fuels.
The prices do change because (many, at least) renewable projects are subsidised via CFD schemes and so on and atop of that are selling into a spot market that may (it varies) pay them more than what they offer into the market.
It's wonderful technology, the sun is god and so on, but we can't run everything on bursty renewables.
Wind spill?
Like... A hurricane?
Sun spill?
Like... A coronal mass ejection?
good luck building solar without having any petrol or plastics derived from petrol in the supply chain
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Electricity cost is pegged to energy cost and wars happening on the other end of the planet influence it directly.
That includes renewables.
Onion headlines aside*, we kinda do? This summer's European heatwave is due to emissions worldwide**; while the historical record has the early emissions from Europe, all the other inhabited continents have also contributed to it since then.
* https://theonion.com/solar-power-investment-skyrockets-upon-...
** There's also a big El Niño event, the Wikipedia page on the heatwave currently expressly denies that this contributed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_European_heatwaves