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2AM is not the usual use case for peaking plants. Yes, voting to keep operating your existing fleet in operation for an extra 5 years is one thing, paying up f
by _aavaa_ 3y ago
2AM is not the usual use case for peaking plants.
Yes, voting to keep operating your existing fleet in operation for an extra 5 years is one thing, paying up for a major refurbishment or a brand new plant is another thing.
But this is beside the point. If we still need use gas peaking plants for emergencies and outlier events and only that, then 99% of the energy decarbonization battle is won.
- lazide 3y ago2am is the case for base load. Because significant load still occurs then. And there is zero insolation.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoBefore your comment the discussion was about comparing the price of renewables to that of fossil fuel plants, specifically it got onto the discussion of peaking power plants. If you wish to change the topic to base load, then you're going to have to make that clear. As for night time, see my comment about storage; build out pumped hydro or dam-based hydro and use it as your battery. When you inevitably have excess solar/wind during the day pump water uphill, and/or decrease you hydro production rate, and then at night time use that pumped storage and/or increase the rate at which you run water through your turbines. If a particular region doesn't believe that it's realistic for them to do this, or show that nuclear will be cheaper, then build that.
- lazide 3y agoNope.