Solar Plus Storage

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Altman predicts solar storage and advanced nuclear will dominate long-term energy
“In the long term, I expect it'll be, I don't know what the ratio, but the two dominant sources will be solar plus storage and nuclear. I think some combination of those two will win the future, like the long term future. And advanced nuclear, meaning SMRs fusi…”
Sam Altman Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 35:38 Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
Altman: Solar plus storage trajectory is sufficient without nuclear breakthroughs
“Solar plus storage is on a good enough trajectory that even if we don't get a big nuclear breakthrough, we would be like, okay-ish.”
Sam Altman Nov 8, 2024 ▶ 5:43 How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
Davis: US solar-plus-storage attachment rates remain too low to transform VPPs
“But in my opinion, solar plus storage attachment rates in the U.S. Are, like, not high enough yet for batteries to really, like, be a potential game changer in VPPs.”
Michelle Davis Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 23:52 The terawatt era of PV: ‘Solar will be the gas of today’
CATALYST Assertion Partly supported
Kann: California NEM changes make solar economics depend on storage
“And the changes to the net energy metering rules, as you said, effectively made it such that the economics of solar only really work now if you add storage to it.”
Shayle Kann Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 27:48 The market for microgrids

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