Sentences with phrase «fuel power plants ramping»
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... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....
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The fossil fuel plants consume more fuel and emit more CO2 when they are ramping up and ramping down their power output to fill in for the changing power output from the wind farms.