— Decarbonisin the first ”0–Ÿ0 per cent of power sstems is ly t alread potentiall cheaper than fossil fuel eneration‚& s o — s c e i s n ‹n some locations total costs for new wind and solar p o p s e installations are now lower than marinal costs of conen„ r tional power plants seriousl challenin the profit „ abilit of fossil fuel electricit eneration‚ • Žull cost analsis reuires adšustin these costs for all externalities ›deaths from air pollution caused b fossil fuels rid balancin for renewables damaes from climate chaneœ which will ar b location and electricit sstem‚ Œrid balancin costs are expected to increase as use of renewables increases‚ — £are inestments are needed across the wider econom — not šust in the power sector — in low„carbon infrastructure which is expensie if forced as a retrofit‚ Howeer the oerall cost of new low„carbon infrastructure is rouhl the same as that of new hih„carbon infrastructure‚* — …he costs of decarbonisin durin the recession induced b the Coid„1ž pandemic ma be een lower ien reater unused capacit in the econom‚ Central banƒ and finance ministr officials see such action as desirable and a reen recoer miht achiee economic obšecties — includin šob creation — more successfull‚( — Estimates of the costs of decarbonizin the entire econom remain preliminar‚ Some sectors — such as lon„term ener storae industrial heat aiation — reuire techno„ loical and cost adances before costs are liƒel to be low enouh to be politicall feasible‚ • Žor instance a complete retrofit of a domestic house in the ‡nited §indom is currentl unliƒel to ield an economic return on ener sains alone without oernment subsid or reulator interention‚ ¡ Žinƒelstein et al 2020 — “ew Climate Econom 201Ÿ ž Hepburn et al‚ 2020 ‘ž
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