
The extraordinary potential value of enhanced geothermal power
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Geothermal Can Play a Non Base Load Role?
The problem with geothermal in terms of deviating from a base load operating strategy is that its fuel cost is zero. It doesn't actually save any money by not generating power. So when you have times when the value of its power goes near zero because there's so much wind and solar in the system, it then just basically has to make up its costs by making more money during other hours. And so it really suffers in that way. All right. Which is why nuclear is why we're having all these fights about keeping nuclear plants open like they're not doing well on the market. Yeah.
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