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- They need something to provide electricity when the sun is not shining, while they install enough batteries and more than enough solar to use during the day a
by marcosdumay 7mo ago
- They need something to provide electricity when the sun is not shining, while they install enough batteries and more than enough solar to use during the day and charge those batteries.
- They need some backup in case the Sun is dimmed for a few days, while they install enough solar to not need this anymore.
- They need some backup in case they grow too fast and the solar installations don't keep up.
- They need some backup in case there's some natural catastrophe, or some stupid dictator somewhere decides to start a war or something and destroy some vital energy infrastructure.
Their government has explained this a few times, but not on those words. It probably helps that those are government projects, and failing to deliver government projects is a very rude attitude that can end people's careers. But the rationale is sound too.
- fred_is_fred 7mo ago"and the solar installations don't keep up.". Whats the average time it takes to build a solar plant versus a coal one? I would assume solar is a lot faster to first production?
- pixl97 7mo agoProbably better to ask how long it takes to build equivalent name plate capacity if both.
- fred_is_fred 7mo agoWith a solar plant I assume they can turn it on before it's 100% done right? Harder to do phases with a coal boiler.
- marcosdumay 7mo agoThat's completely irrelevant to the issue, though.
- fred_is_fred 7mo agoIt's not irrelevant to the comment I was replying to.
- marcosdumay 7mo agoIt's my comment. The time it takes to build a coal plant is irrelevant to whether you can use your already built or close to finished plants in an emergency.