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It’s normal, the sun goes down quite regularly.
by hoppery 3y ago
It’s normal, the sun goes down quite regularly.
- gruez 3y agoBut if you look at previous day's graphs, you see that solar tops out at 20%, whereas natural gas never drops below 50%.
- hoppery 3y agoNatural gas generation never drops below ~40% period in this state, the novelty here is its losses from heat were covered to the tune of 35% of the mix last Tuesday. PV generation maxes out at ~12GW, the bulk of our renewable energy comes from wind but it isn’t blowing this week ergo outsized natgas generation before the sun is up.