Solar and batteries to make up 81% of new 2024 U.S. electric-generating capacity

Re:Solar and batteries to make up 81% of new 2024 U.S. elect... by doikor on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:42AM (#39397659)

Only if the operator is criminally incompetent.

90%+ capacity factor/uptime is pretty much standard and the better ones reach ~95%

For example TVO in Finland has 93% to 97% depending on the reactor since the early 1990s. Fortum has very similar numbers for their reactors.

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Re:Solar and batteries to make up 81% of new 2024 U.S. elect... by jeffbee on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:59AM (#39398714)

This is the definition of cherry-picking data points.

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Re:Solar and batteries to make up 81% of new 2024 U.S. elect... by doikor on Friday February 16, 2024 @11:05AM (#39398814)

I would say cherry-picking data points is better then providing 0 data points.

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Basically competent operators hit ~90%.

US is around 93%.

Sweden 84%

Switzerland 90%

France would hit that if they could run their plants at 100% when they are on but they run theirs in load following mode due to having so many of them. So they run at around 80%.

World average is 83%.

https://world-nuclear.org/getmedia/891c0cd8-2beb-4acf-bb4b-5...

And yes I know best the numbers about the market I live in because I live here and this stuff effects the price I have to pay for electricity.

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Re:Solar and batteries to make up 81% of new 2024 U.S. elect... by asadotzler on Saturday February 17, 2024 @03:12AM (#39407481)

If the world average is 83% and his claim included 80%, he wasn't as far off as you made him out to be with the criminal negligence business, was he?

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