Climate policy, society, and the built environment. Architect, LEED AP BD+C. https://landartgenerator.org
Rob
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3. It is less expensive to heat your home or office with clean firm power running a heat pump than it is to run a gas furnace, even in North America where gas remains cheap.
At least 12 Need-to-Know Facts:
Contrary to some headlines, U.S. clean-energy investment hit a record $378 billion in 2025
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You can tell your kids that you lived through the great clean energy price inflection. Everything changed in the mid-2020s.
Three short articles with new charts tell the story.
1. Dispatchable renewables (power when you need it) is cheaper than a barrel of oil.
2. Clean firm electricity is cheaper than electricity generated from fossil gas.
The wind no longer dies and the sun never sets because batteries are so inexpensive we can shift variable generation to any time of the day to match load.
Rob
This is the third in a series of price explorations comparing “dispatchable renewables” to the incumbent forms of fossil fuel energy.
