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An energy provider attempts to achieve 24/7 clean energy

Volts

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99% Hourly?

If you could go to 100%, how would you cover those nighttime hours? Is it just buying more wind or is it buying more batteries? Like what could you theoretically do to cover those if costs were no constraint? Yeah. Our modeling results show that if we were to go to 100%. We'd add about another 600 megawatts of capacity. But yeah, there's more cost to buy all of those resources.

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