&gt;The report says that coal costs $75 per megawatt hour, while land-based wind costs $83 and solar comes in at a whopping $122. That&#x27;s far from &quot;almost competitive&quot;.<p>$83 is close enough to $75 that tweaks to tax policy can now be used to make renewable energy investment over fossil fuel virtually a no brainer decision without adversely affecting overall energy production that much.<p>Indeed, that&#x27;s pretty much what Germany has done.<p>&gt;Also note that these are not costs of production, these are what people wind up paying for it. That means that the coal numbers include extensive taxes, while the solar and wind numbers include extensive tax discounts and incentives.<p>I won&#x27;t speculate as to why you didn&#x27;t note that fossil fuel subsidies are also included.