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TheLoafOfBread
on Dec 26, 2023
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All I want for Christmas is 1TW of solar deployed ...
But idle = power plant still running on 80% so you are still using 80% of coal input to just keep it running on empty.
cinntaile
on Dec 26, 2023
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Coal plants for load following end up around 20-40%, nowhere near your 80% number. They have to, because the energy grid demands that they're capable of doing this because it's just not economical to run them at 80% when there is such variability.
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