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twilliwilkinsonshire t1_jc44o03 wrote

There should be far more nuclear on that chart than there is and batteries shouldn't be included, they only shift capacity not generate more - unless somehow they are calculating the efficiency gain for solar which brings me to that question.. is this just total peak generation capacity? That is not a particularly accurate way to measure solar and wind... this feels like a nearly useless chart.

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xylopyrography t1_jc5dk6a wrote

This is just nameplate capacity best I can tell, so it's just the maximum output rate that the installed batteries will be able to do.

Solar and batteries will definitely occupy a much smaller portion of real-world energy.

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twilliwilkinsonshire t1_jc5it8t wrote

The chart has this caption right above it:

>Solar, wind, battery storage and nuclear make up 84% of utility-scale generating capacity planned to come online this year

So IMHO batteries should not be included.

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