Fact-check: “Solar power is now cheaper than coal in most countries”
Verdict: Mostly True (72% confidence)
The weight of authoritative evidence — including the IEA's 2021 World Energy Outlook, a 2025 UN report, IRENA data, and recent University of Surrey research — shows that utility-scale solar LCOE has fallen below new-build coal costs in most major markets and, by most aggregated assessments, across the majority of countries globally. The IEA explicitly called solar 'the cheapest electricity in history' and cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries. The main qualification is that 'most co…
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