[danans]

> when normalized by power output, internal combustion engines are one hundred times less expensive than conventional, large power plants.

That's quite the caveat because with the higher power output comes far lower efficiency. That's fine for an emergency backup scenario, or for spinning reserves as the paper mentions, but it's a very operationally expensive for normal power generation. The idea of modularity is good, but that's already a part of the VPPs that are being built now.