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How Does Your State Make Electricity? America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago. (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

natural gas generation are only for those essential overnight loads that we just can’t shed.

And you literally just described what is happening. We are using more fossil fuels then ever before and naive environmentalists (encouraged by the fossil fuel industry) are calling it a victory for the environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It is a victory for the environment. A major victory.

You don't seem to understand that demand is flexible. You probably understand that you can adjust demand simply by offering favorable terms, but you don't seem to understand how much demand has been shifted with these incentives.

Now that renewables are exceeding traditional generation methods, we can expect those old incentives to be adjusted, and larger percentages of our total power will be provided by renewables. Night time demand is being pushed to the day time, just as fast as grid improvements accommodate the increased load.