Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson.bsky.social)
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Fascinating new EIA data South Dakota produced 110% of its electricity demand with just Wind-Water-Solar for the full year Oct 1 '23-Sep 30 '24 77.5% Wind 30.1% Water 2.2% Solar Also produced 16.8% gas, 11.7% coal So SD produced 138% of demand, exporting 38% https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSBook/Countries100Pct.pdf
  • eleitl@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It does matter because you have to cover a lacune of 6-8 weeks from fossil sources. Typically these are gas turbine peaker plants at low duty cycle which need to be subsidized.