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Are markets the right tool for decarbonizing electricity?

Jun 12, 20241 hr 36 min
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Episode description

In his book The Price Is Wrong, Brett Christophers argues that, contrary to recent economic triumphalism among renewables advocates, wind and solar are not profitable enough to attract the private capital necessary to scale as fast as they need to scale. In this episode, he and I dig deep (extremely deep) into the details.



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