How to bring technology costs down - with Boris Schubert from Silicon Ranch

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Down to Zero

Florian Dahlhausen and Shaneez Mohinani

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We share the playbooks of leading VCs, entrepreneurs and experts in Silicon Valley and beyond about how to build a successful climate tech company.

Careers

Business

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How to bring technology costs down - with Boris Schubert from Silicon Ranch

Down to Zero

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2 years ago

How to bring technology costs down - with Boris Schubert from Silicon Ranch

Prices for solar energy have dramatically over the last decades. While generating 1 MWh of solar energy still cost $300,000 in 1957, it's around $20 today.

-- But how did solar become so cheap?

-- And what can we learn for other climate technologies?

We speak with Boris Schubert, an energy veteran of 25 years and COO of Silicon Ranch, one of the largest developer independent power producers in the US, to find the answers.

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