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Wouldn’t it be more cost effective to make a new power plant at that operating expense?
by syntaxing 3y ago
Wouldn’t it be more cost effective to make a new power plant at that operating expense?
- Scoundreller 3y agoI think the warm-up cost isn’t really there when the plant is operating continuously. Oddly for a peaker plant, they built these as combined cycle, which wouldn’t make financial sense if it was to only run for short periods. A “true” peaker plant is inefficient but with lots of capacity but we basically build a “proper” power plant that has good efficiency, so it’s not too bad. But makes you wonder what went so wrong in the planning (even though the mistake turned out advantageous).