{"id":665799,"date":"2026-10-26T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/665799\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:08:09","slug":"its-offensively-cheap-how-solar-power-is-quietly-becoming-bigger-than-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/665799\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s offensively cheap&#8217;: How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Still, it all requires a plan, Julia Souder, chief executive of the Long Duration Energy Storage Council, a global executive-led non-profit established at COP26, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keeping-the-lights-on-during-storms\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">warned recently<\/a>. &#8220;There is an inherent danger in uncontrolled electrification, and adding massive new loads without built-in flexibility creates a fragile system,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Electrification is not automatically resilient.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still, it all requires a plan, Julia Souder, chief executive of the Long Duration Energy Storage Council, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-665799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}