{"id":93083,"date":"2019-07-03T13:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T20:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/new-solar-battery-price-crushes-fossil-fuels-buries-nuclear"},"modified":"2019-07-03T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T20:03:05","slug":"new-solar-battery-price-crushes-fossil-fuels-buries-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/new-solar-battery-price-crushes-fossil-fuels-buries-nuclear","title":{"rendered":"New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels, Buries Nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-solar-battery-price-crushes-fossil-fuels-buries-nuclear.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Power and Water officials have struck a deal on the largest and cheapest solar + battery-storage project in the world, at prices that leave fossil fuels in the dust and may relegate nuclear power to the dustbin.<\/p>\n<p>Later this month the LA Board of Water and Power Commissioners is expected to approve a 25-year contract that will serve 7 percent of the city\u2019s electricity demand at 1.997\u00a2\/kwh for solar energy and 1.3\u00a2 for power from batteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the lowest solar-photovoltaic price in the United States,\u201d said James Barner, the agency\u2019s manager for strategic initiatives, \u201cand it is the largest and lowest-cost solar and high-capacity battery-storage project in the U.S. and we believe in the world today. So this is, I believe, truly revolutionary in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Power and Water officials have struck a deal on the largest and cheapest solar + battery-storage project in the world, at prices that leave fossil fuels in the dust and may relegate nuclear power to the dustbin. Later this month the LA Board of Water and Power Commissioners is expected to approve a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93083","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}