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by JumpCrisscross
214 days ago
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> That's capacity, not generation Irrelevant. The question is what we're investing in. "The U.S" is "rushing to adopt...renewables." > FF plants run most of the time "CCGT capacity factor rose from 40% in 2008 to 57% in 2022" [1]. "In the western United States," meanwhile "the capacity value of PV plants can be in the range of 50% to 80%" [2]. > That's how they skew the numbers to make renewables seem viable when they produce a shockingly low amount of actual power This is a report from Trump's EIA. [1] https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/average-utili... [2] https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/57582.pdf |
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