Re:Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035: Study
by gwbas1c on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:51PM
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Something to keep in mind is the growing trend of electrification in the 2020s. This will be both electric cars, and heat pumps for heating.
> “Our story for gas plants is, if you build it, they won’t run -- they won’t run at their expected capacity factors,” said Mark Dyson, who co-wrote both reports. “And that filters down to pipelines, too.”
I suspect that the demand for electricity will mean that we'll need gas plants much longer than the article believes.
This will be a good thing, because electric cars and heat pumps running off of natural gas generators is much less carbon than gasoline cars and natural gas furnaces.
> “Our story for gas plants is, if you build it, they won’t run -- they won’t run at their expected capacity factors,” said Mark Dyson, who co-wrote both reports. “And that filters down to pipelines, too.”
I suspect that the demand for electricity will mean that we'll need gas plants much longer than the article believes.
This will be a good thing, because electric cars and heat pumps running off of natural gas generators is much less carbon than gasoline cars and natural gas furnaces.