Well the good news is renewables will continue to get cheaper even if these fuckwads try to prop up their overlords a bit longer. I don’t think they can stop renewables from taking over unless they outright ban it, which will be their next play.
The issue is that landlords do not care about operating costs. So as long as it is possible to install cheaper gas boilers then heat pumps, they will do it.
That is historical consumption not new installs, but even from this there is a clear trend that can be extrapolated. Energy companies, the greediest fucks in human history are choosing renewables because economically it is the best choice.
The trend in primary energy consumption is that there is no substitution/transition to renewable, but addition/stacking on top of existing consumption.
So the fossil fraction remains about constant.
Of course, the fossil part will be going away shortly, but then you can’t build current renewable infrastructure without fossil/mineral resources, so it’s an extender/multiplier of fossil.
In new installs, with – everything else being equal – price/TCO is the only buying signal.
The dirty trick, of course, is that not all Joules and Watts are created equal.
Well the good news is renewables will continue to get cheaper even if these fuckwads try to prop up their overlords a bit longer. I don’t think they can stop renewables from taking over unless they outright ban it, which will be their next play.
The issue is that landlords do not care about operating costs. So as long as it is possible to install cheaper gas boilers then heat pumps, they will do it.
Yeah it’s tricky. I really think energy costs should be split between landlords and tenants somehow.
Or, you know, eliminate private ownership of residential real estate…
If renewables were indeed cheaper, nobody would use fossil fuels, at all.
This is true, which is why the vast majority of new power generating equipment installs is renewables.
A bit over 50% isn’t exactly a vast majority, and primary energy shows a fuller picture: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-primary-energy
That is historical consumption not new installs, but even from this there is a clear trend that can be extrapolated. Energy companies, the greediest fucks in human history are choosing renewables because economically it is the best choice.
The trend in primary energy consumption is that there is no substitution/transition to renewable, but addition/stacking on top of existing consumption. So the fossil fraction remains about constant.
Of course, the fossil part will be going away shortly, but then you can’t build current renewable infrastructure without fossil/mineral resources, so it’s an extender/multiplier of fossil.
Inertia doesn’t exist in your world, does it?
In new installs, with – everything else being equal – price/TCO is the only buying signal. The dirty trick, of course, is that not all Joules and Watts are created equal.