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For individual residential generation solar seems cheaper than wind. Is there a cutover between solar and wind?


Yes, wind gets cheaper as you scale up the turbine. The transition is something like 1 MW turbines, but this is very location specific for both wind and solar.


Wind doesn't make a lot of sense when sized to serve a house, or even a neighborhood. It becomes economical hundreds of feet in the air with turbine blades the size of a city block.




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