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Fairly sure you are citing this article:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312014759 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037

by brrt 10y ago

Fairly sure you are citing this article:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312014759 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312... And the actual numbers are considerably less optimistic than you report, and that paper was rather optimistic to begin with. But I agree with the gist of it: storage worries are quite a bit overrated,and oversupply and transmission capacities are underrated. We can fix those easily enough, though

Retric 10y ago
No, one of the major assumptions was existing hydro got converted to peaking power plants. A reasonable assumption that takes little land or capital and would payback if there where significant day to day demand and a regular oversupply of power. The other major assumption is significantly increased energy transmission which circles back into demand as transmission losses add up.