Sentences with phrase «required natural gas backup»

Ceal — I'd be really interested to know why wind (or any renewable energy source) required natural gas backup.

Experiment number one is how long will it take the public to figure out that the renewable energy option for future generation requires natural gas backup capacity of at least 75 % of the total capacity needed?

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But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

Wind and solar are intermittent and unreliable methods for generating electricity that requires backup, usually with natural gas turbines, which increases costs.