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by anton96 1324 days ago
Because at best, Renewables run at 20% percent of their installed capacity comparing to more 80% for nuclear.
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You are confusing efficiency with some other metrics. Solar is 20%, but there is no point comparing it to efficiency of gas or nuclear - it's apples to oranges.
It totally makes sense because you always compare price of installation against a certain installed capacity in TW.

I was not speaking of the efficiency of transforming 20% of the sun energy into electricity.

So what that 20% means in case of solar? Utilisation factor also doesn’t make sense - what matters is how many GWh you van get per dollar of installation, but you don’t measure this in %.