Alex Epstein

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Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein

Will batteries make unreliable solar/wind reliable? No. Battery storage is expensive and can only provide a given "capacity" (e.g., 1 GW) for a few hours, and only then if fully charged. Planned batteries are nowhere near enough to compensate for solar and wind's unreliability. https://t.co/TRHzVx7Zqf — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 7, 2022

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This year grid operators planned on retiring about 15 GW of reliable capacity and replacing it with only about 12 GW of reliable generation—which has recently become 10 GW as two nuclear units have been delayed until 2023. Every decline in reliable capacity makes the grid worse. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 7, 2022

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The next 7.5 years are scheduled to be a bloodbath of reliable capacity retirements. There are 93 GW of announced coal plant retirements, plus up to 92 more GW are at risk retiring early due to new EPA rules. That's almost ⅕ of our already-scarce reliable capacity shut down. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 7, 2022