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Furbnow is scaling up residential retrofits in the UK, tackling the 28m homes that make up a third of UK carbon emissions. We are making homes more comfortable, more sustainable and cheaper to run.

We’ve just spun out of the Founders Factory Venture Studio with backing from Nesta. We are 4 right now and will be 13 by the end of the year.

I need your help building out our customer platform in Django + HTMX / react, creating our data services and our internal tools to manage our supplier marketplace of retrofit professionals and installers who carry out the works.

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Regarding the technology comparison, that is true from a power system point of view - but for a utility which is making investment decisions in new generation capacity, it isn't so different. We include carbon taxes because coal power operators suffer that tax, it isn't an assumption about future policies. And equally to someone else's question about whether subsidies are included in solar costs, the answer is no. Because the LCOE is calculated from current module, balance of system and soft costs, and that while subsidies have brought the costs down, they aren't a component of the LCOE. As for system costs which perhaps you are referring to, that is fair from the system viewpoint but not particularly for the marginal unit of new capacity. UKERC have done some good research in the UK on system costs of renewables integration which perhaps you are referring to [0].

But you're absolutely right that there is a lot of nuance, especially around regional power market differences.

> - The author states that renewables are on the verge of being "cheaper than the cost of continuing to operate existing coal- or gas-fueled power plants". They support this argument with some cherry-picked examples. Realistically, that is not true, nor will it likely every be true.

In the case of coal, it certainly is true in many regions. Natural gas I agree is quite different, particularly given the role it will play providing flexible capacity as renewables penetrate further. But across Europe new renewables are cheaper to build than to operate existing coal, due to ageing fleets, tightening air pollution regulations and the carbon price. Same for the US, except without the carbon price. [*edit - And obviously the rapid cost reductions in renewables!]. And we see quite strong trends for Asia, SEA etc.

You can find more detail on the coal trajectories in our global report, Powering Down Coal and online portal [0].