Re:India achieves 2030 target of 40% non-fossil based electr...
by nitsuaeekcm on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:36AM
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Still a good thing, but title is misleading. 40% of India’s electricity does not come from non-fossil fuel sources. Instead, 40% of their installed capacity is non-fossil-fuel based. There’s a big difference because of the expected capacity factor of wind farms and solar farms vs fossil fuel plants. Even if 40% of your installed capacity is solar, with a capacity factor of 50%, you may be getting only 20% of your Joules from solar (fossil fuel plants generally have very high capacity factors)
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Re:India achieves 2030 target of 40% non-fossil based electr...
by kaiwen1 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:11AM
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Indeed, very misleading. No solar project has a capacity factor of 50%. In India, CF is around 16-20% [1,2,3].
[1] https://cercind.gov.in/2011/Whats-New/PERFORMANCE%20OF%20SOL...
[2] https://www.cmu.edu/ceic/assets/docs/seminar-files/2012-2013...
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18318-7/figures/1