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by raphaelj 848 days ago
> is going to be extremely high to make it profitable to build a plant that only runs 3% of the time.

It's probably fine, as the cost of renewable electricity is now lower than the fuel cost (aka the variable cost) of these plants.

In a lot of places, it's now cheaper to run a gas plant with renewables than without, as the build costs of the renewables is lower than the cost of the fuel they prevent to get burned.