The data behind New York's increasingly dirty electricity peaks
I appreciate the analysis, though I am not sure that any of the results should surprise anyone.<p>- NY is moving away from nuclear (counted under &quot;clean&quot;)<p>- none of the &quot;clean&quot; sources can easily scale on demand. Sun, wind, hydro and nuclear have either fixed or random output<p>- all peaker plants and less-desirable and so less-fully-maximized sources fall under the dirty category. Sun not providing enough juice? Ramp up nat gas peaker plants<p>No surprises here. We need batteries, more reliable clean base generation if we want to use less dirty peak generation.