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Still a good thing, but title is misleading. 40% of India’s electricity does not come from non-fossil fuel sources. Instead, 40% of their installed capacity is
by nitsuaeekcm 5y ago
Still a good thing, but title is misleading. 40% of India’s electricity does not come from non-fossil fuel sources. Instead, 40% of their installed capacity is non-fossil-fuel based. There’s a big difference because of the expected capacity factor of wind farms and solar farms vs fossil fuel plants. Even if 40% of your installed capacity is solar, with a capacity factor of 50%, you may be getting only 20% of your Joules from solar (fossil fuel plants generally have very high capacity factors)
- kaiwen1 5y agoIndeed, very misleading. No solar project has a capacity factor of 50%. In India, CF is around 16-20% [1,2,3]. [1] https://cercind.gov.in/2011/Whats-New/PERFORMANCE%20OF%20SOLAR%20POWER%20PLANTS.pdf https://cercind.gov.in/2011/Whats-New/PERFORMANCE%20OF%20SOL... [2] https://www.cmu.edu/ceic/assets/docs/seminar-files/2012-2013/ranganbanerjeemarch13.pdf https://www.cmu.edu/ceic/assets/docs/seminar-files/2012-2013... [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18318-7/figures/1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18318-7/figures/1