Comment by hunterpayne
5 hours ago
My friend, renewables only have a capacity factor of .1 (10%). That means those "gas plants" (really coal, and the worst quality coal on the planet too) are running 90% of the time. There is a reason why France's grid makes 7x the power for the same CO2 emissions as Germany.
A single energy source having a capacity factor of 10% does not imply that gas plants will have to run 90% of the time.
It ignores storage, over-provisioning, aggregation of uncorrelated sources etc.
Not to mention that wind typically has a much higher capacity factor than 10%.
I don't know what the true number is, but I think this is a low effort take.