There’s a big schism among energy system analysts right now. Some experts advocate for electricity grids running on 100% solar, wind and battery energy storage. Others argue that this is nothing more than delusional ‘hopium’. But with cost curves of all these technologies following exponential trajectories, is it now realistic to project that we may soon reach this lofty goal?

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