Auction prices at record low, electricity production costs radically reduced – renewable energies increasingly attractive.
Renewable energies are on the advance worldwide for purely economic reasons. The new study by IRENA, International Renewable Energy Agency, clearly shows the trend. Renewable energies such as wind and solar beat even the cheapest coal competitors in a cost comparison. Competitive electricity production costs of renewables make investments in this future technology extremely attractive – and will therefore play a decisive role in the measures to stimulate the economies of many countries.
The IRENA report „How Falling Costs Make Renewables a Cost-effective Investment“ (download see below) Costs of Renewable Energy Production in 2019 shows that more than half of the new renewable energy capacity added in 2019 has lower electricity costs than the cheapest new coal-fired power plants.
The report also shows that new renewable energy projects are increasingly undercutting existing coal-fired power plants.