No, it's not cheaper, and those who concoct those LCOE distortions are hiding the costs.
If you make the cost of dispatchable power more expensive by relying on them for a stable grid, but underutilizing the infrastructure costs without including that in the LCOE of wind and solar, then it's simply corrupt accounting.
Show me a 100% wind and solar utility that includes storage that is less than the cost of coal, and you've got an argument.
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