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Jake Auchincloss: “Solar is going down a cost curve faster than any other…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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One SouthCoast Chamber Breakfast with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published | Video Starts at 26:21

I think virtual power plants where you bet big consumers of energy to basically bid to reduce their demand at peak times and cut off those peaks. That will lower … Solar is going down a cost curve faster than any other technology. … I helped get investment tax credits for a trade school in my district to implant community geothermal underneath its football field. And that's going to take off a huge chunk of cost for them over the long run. (26:21–26:26)

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Asserts that solar technology is decreasing in cost faster than any other technology.

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