We’re coming for you, fossil!

A tool you may find useful in your discussions with friends, relatives and coworkers about your careers might be the updated International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) projections for levelized costs of electricity (LCOE) from various sources. A lot of people are running around with numbers in their heads that might have been true a decade ago, but things are changing swiftly, and if we don’t keep up with current metrics, we can look dumber than usual.

First let’s open with a little story. There is good news across the spectrum, but these numbers also come laden with some new challenges and considerations for people considering entering these fields.

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