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Tim McSherry's avatar

If it’s not dispatchable it’s not capacity.

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Jeff Chestnut's avatar

The belief in the models bones down to do you believe the grid operators competency and understand their bias. We have more risk to assess with the grid operators skill that is not addressed in the capacity models. It’s nice that the feds did the study but it’s the cart before the horse. Until the grid operators and their operations are in order the models have little validity. All of the efforts to prop up wind, solar, and batteries are not well disguised, and this modeling should not be used to put these into the grid as they are relatively quick to build but still with the fatal flaw of intermittency.

And now the basic question - do you still believe the government?

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