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		UltraSane 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Th... "You can have a 93% capacity factor and still have short time periods with 45% of the fleet offline simultaneously." Only if you have a tiny fleet with very bad management.

ViewTrick1002 25 days ago [–]

That is the problem with large single points of failures.

The US fleet might be large in absolute numbers smoothing out the average, but multiple plants in Florida having simulatenous failures won't be saved by Washington State plants having amazing capacity factors.

We still have a grid to deal with.

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