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> That's capacity, not generation

Irrelevant. The question is what we're investing in. "The U.S" is "rushing to adopt...renewables."

> FF plants run most of the time

"CCGT capacity factor rose from 40% in 2008 to 57% in 2022" [1]. "In the western United States," meanwhile "the capacity value of PV plants can be in the range of 50% to 80%" [2].

> That's how they skew the numbers to make renewables seem viable when they produce a shockingly low amount of actual power

This is a report from Trump's EIA.

[1] https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/average-utili...

[2] https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/57582.pdf





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