We already have fossil fuel plants though and very few are actually near retirement. Why build more? Solar is great for daytime usage before you even consider thermal solar. Daytime is when a lot...
We already have fossil fuel plants though and very few are actually near retirement. Why build more?
Solar is great for daytime usage before you even consider thermal solar. Daytime is when a lot of businesses have peak energy use and things like Air Conditioning run most which is a huge power draw.
For night time (excluding thermal solar) you have wind power still running at high efficiency as well as things like pumped storage (which can be powered by solar). Throw in geothermal (where that is possible) and tidal power and the argument for nuclear and new fossil fuel power falls down.
Battery storage is also coming ahead in leaps and bounds. Especially when in a distributed capacity (at the point of use) you reduce the strain on transmission networks while being viable as those older fossil fuel plants inevitably start to go offline.
We already have fossil fuel plants though and very few are actually near retirement. Why build more?
Solar is great for daytime usage before you even consider thermal solar. Daytime is when a lot of businesses have peak energy use and things like Air Conditioning run most which is a huge power draw.
For night time (excluding thermal solar) you have wind power still running at high efficiency as well as things like pumped storage (which can be powered by solar). Throw in geothermal (where that is possible) and tidal power and the argument for nuclear and new fossil fuel power falls down.
Battery storage is also coming ahead in leaps and bounds. Especially when in a distributed capacity (at the point of use) you reduce the strain on transmission networks while being viable as those older fossil fuel plants inevitably start to go offline.