{"id":114912,"date":"2020-10-22T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/its-official-solar-is-the-cheapest-electricity-in-history"},"modified":"2020-10-22T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T00:22:25","slug":"its-official-solar-is-the-cheapest-electricity-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/its-official-solar-is-the-cheapest-electricity-in-history","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-official-solar-is-the-cheapest-electricity-in-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a matter of time.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says solar is now the cheapest form of electricity for utility companies to build. That\u2019s thanks to risk-reducing financial policies around the world, the agency says, and it applies to locations with both the most favorable policies and the easiest access to financing. The report underlines how important these policies are to encouraging development of renewables and other environmentally forward technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2600\ufe0f You love renewable energy. So do we. Let\u2019s nerd out over it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a matter of time. In a new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says solar is now the cheapest form of electricity for utility companies to build. That\u2019s thanks to risk-reducing financial policies around the world, the agency says, and it applies to locations with both the most favorable policies and the easiest access [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,45,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-finance","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}