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You're conflating energy concepts "capacity" with "energy" The grid can have wind/solar and fossil. Generation is dispatched in "merit order" -- when wind/sola
by ghouse 8y ago
You're conflating energy concepts "capacity" with "energy"
The grid can have wind/solar and fossil. Generation is dispatched in "merit order" -- when wind/solar is has a lower marginal cost, it will serve load. During other periods (like those windless nights), the fossil will still generate.
- DennisP 8y agoBy 2050 or so, the grid can only have both if we accept disastrous levels of climate change. See the latest U.N. report that's been all over the news, e.g. here: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc-report-wxc/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/climate-change-new-ipcc...