Lazard came out this week with their annual statements on the Levelized Cost of Energy, Storage and Hydrogen this week, but it makes for confusing reading. Basically prices are not moving, primarily because of the global pandemic and its effect on component and project pricing – not to mention the fact that renewable energy has no real requirement right now to lower its pricing in a world which has record high pricing for natural gas, oil and coal. Despite its very specific hurdles, solar pricing is in fact doing better at the project level than onshore wind, according to Lazard’s numbers, based on projects completed in the past 18 months (see here). The lowest priced solar deals are operating at…