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• Retric 5y ago
  That might be your gut feeling, but the utter simplicity of hydro made it vastly more reliable than those options you mention. Individual coal, gas, nuclear etc all needs to be regularly taken offline due to various issues from mechanical faults to weather and supply chain issues. As demonstrated by the multiple recent power outages in Texas coal, gas, and nuclear even have dependencies to the weather and the wider electric grid which will take them down at the same time. Of course total capacity on an annual basis basis varies. But we care about the ability to reliably produce power when necessary far more than maximum capacity across months. Markets adjust to supply limits on an annual basis far more easily than a power outage.