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Thats still building 2x the power generation (and you've got storage in there too). Those wind turbines aren't free. They have different maintenance costs too.
by XorNot 3y ago
Thats still building 2x the power generation (and you've got storage in there too). Those wind turbines aren't free. They have different maintenance costs too.
You don't get to say "oh well it'll be 1GW of solar if we also build 1GW of wind" because that's not the project.
This is all an excuse to talk around Solar's god awful capacity factors which take the shine off those $/MW headlines.
- thehappypm 3y agoYeah, but peaker plants exist. 2 GW of wind + solar will actually reduce 2 GW of peaker plant usage.
- tfourb 3y agoAll the proper "whole system" studies I know account for capacity factor and renewables come out ahead anyway.