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Energy Insiders - a RenewEconomy Podcast

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The Future of Renewable Energy

Paul Dennon: I think we're probably getting to the end of what I wanted to talk about, except for two things. One is, out of the modeling you do, as the renewable penetration goes up in the United States, which I'm sure it does, what happens to price? Does it in real terms very broadly? Yeah. The last 10%. And that's a big focus of my work now, just because I think we've solved the 20, 30, 40, 50% problems. So yeah, the last 10%, it's tough, it's expensive, the seasonal storage technologies aren't quite there. But again, we have this tremendous advantage of great renewable energy

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