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> either you build gas power plants and keep them idle Given that we already have a bunch of Gas plants, do we need to build new ones, or could we just mainta

• crote 1y ago
  Not all gas plants are made equally. There's a huge difference operation-wise between "able to scale at any moment from 0% to 100% within 15 minutes" and "can start going online within 30 days". Most current plants are either designed to run basically all the time, or only run a couple of hours multiple times a day. A renewable grid needs generation which is fully shut down for months, but can scale up to 100% within days when weather forecasts predict it'll be needed. The current plants might work as a stop-gap measure, but long-term we'll need to build something designed specifically for this application.