Clean energy technologies, such as solar panels and microgrids, are becoming more affordable and competitive and baseload concerns are not the giant problem as some are making it out to be, the consultancy found.

 

Seven trends are transforming the energy sector and technical innovation, cost efficiencies and increasing consumer demand are driving renewables to become preferred energy sources. 

 

The report shows that wind energy is currently the cheapest source of energy coming in at between US$30-$60 per megawatt hour, while solar generated energy came in second between US$43-$53/MWh. Comparatively the cheapest fossil fuel, gas cost around US$42-$78 per MWh, while the costs of so-called "low emissio...