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@MattMastodon @Sodis We're going in circles. Volatile sources can only supply 40% of current demand for £50/MWh. The question is what fills the rest.

If storage, then the price goes up immediately by at least two conversion losses from/to storage, in addition to the cost of storage itself. Which doesn't exist at the needed scalability.

Pointing to single projects is not meaningful, as we need to build a fleet anyway, which has its own dynamics.

@Ardubal @Sodis

OK so I have googled the men capacity factor and of course #nuclear has nearly 100% and #renewables only 40%.

But this just means it produces on average 40% of it's capacity. You'd need a sunny windy day to get 100%

What I've read about is a #SWB (Solar wind and battery) system with massive overcapacity

So biomass, hydro and battery can take up the slack when needed. Or gas - which has a very low mean capacity factor <10% but is usually used as a last resort

Cheap #zero #CO2