The notion that wind and solar power are becoming cheaper than sources like coal and nuclear is patently false,” Fisher claimed. This narrative tends to compare only brand-new power plants—highly subsidized wind and solar installments—to coal plants paralyzed by costly and unprecedented regulations,” said Fisher. “The implication is there is no longer a cost premium in replacing the output of today’s existing coal plants with power from wind and solar facilities, never mind the obvious reliability problems in attempting to do that.