Price of inefficient wind and solar drops

Fuel Fix:

A new report from the Department of Energy catalogs just how much renewable energy prices have fallen in recent years.

Since 2008 – probably not coincidentally the year President Obama was elected to the White House – government analysts put the cost declines as such:

• Onshore wind turbines are down 41 percent
• Rooftop solar is down 54 percent
• Utility-scale solar farms are down 65 percent

With falling prices has come growth that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

Last year solar panels and wind turbines accounted for more than two-thirds of the power generation installed on the U.S. grid, with wind accounting for more than 40 percent of the total, the Department of Energy reported Wednesday.
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Whatever the costs they are still inefficient.  They still have no way to modulate the output or store excess energy at a reasonable price.  They still need fossil fuel alternatives for when the wind is not blowing or the sun is not shining.  That makes them expensive despite the price declines.