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Why the Lowest Cost Doesn’t Always Win in Business

Solar and wind look like they have a cost advantage, but batteries show why the most flexible actors often capture the economic surplus instead.

If you stare at power markets long enough, you start seeing the same pattern show up again and again: someone can create obvious value, and someone else can capture a disproportionate amount of the surplus.
That’s why I like batteries as a leadership… [5306 chars]

Source: Entrepreneur | Published: 2026-05-29T13:00:00Z

Credit: Entrepreneur

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