Yes It is. Even including batteries:

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lcoe-and-valu...

"Solar PV with storage = solar PV installation paired with four-hour duration battery storage, scaled to 20% of the output capacity of the solar PV."

Sometime the sun goes away for more than 4hrs.

That may be OK for closed-ended systems (turn off the science at night and during storms), but not for open-ended systems with diverse user demand.

4hour batteries are competitive with gas peakers to match high demand during and after sunny times, but solar needs gas peakers or similar to over for non-sunny times.

> Sometime the sun goes away for more than 4hrs.

everywhere? all at once? The grid is distributed, this is a solved problem. Most of what is needed now is to build the systems, storage, and transmission lines.

That's going to drop a lot as sodium-ion batteries go into large-scale production.

Yep - people act as if innovation has halted in the face of ridicule.