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“In most OECD member-country electricity markets, the levelized cost of energy for new utility-scale solar photovoltaic power and new onshore wind power is lower than the levelized cost of energy for new natural-gas combined-cycle power plants.”

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Available high-quality evidence supports the claim’s broad direction: new onshore wind, and often utility-scale solar, usually have lower project-level LCOE than new gas combined-cycle plants across much of the OECD. OECD cross-country data, plus recent U.S. and European studies, point the same way. The main limitation is incomplete OECD-wide coverage, and solar’s advantage depends more on local sunlight and gas-price conditions.

“The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued a warning that children's data requires special protection due to the potential for misuse to have lifelong consequences.”

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The OECD has indeed formally called for special protection of children's personal data and recognized that misuse can cause serious, long-term harms—making the claim substantively accurate. However, the specific phrase "lifelong consequences" does not appear verbatim in OECD documents; the closest such language comes from the European Data Protection Board. The claim is a reasonable paraphrase of the OECD's position but slightly overstates the explicitness of the organization's wording.