ELI5/ Why is the cost of electricity constantly increasing despite the increasing amount of renewable and green energy?

Question

I understand there is installation, maintenance and servicing costs, but shouldn’t the free power from the sun, wind and tidal eventually pay this off and start providing free power?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

… green energy. Do you even know what that is? It is energy that is called “green”. Such meaningless marketing buzzwords serve the purpose of getting people to shell out more money.