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1. Nyuk nyuk nyuk. "...coal...became...mid-merit energy source rather than ...baseload..."

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 05:05 PM

Aug 2013

"...the daily generation from gas and coal-fired plants was negatively correlated with wind power output, so the profile of coal-fired plants became that of mid-merit energy source rather than the traditional base load profile its cost competitiveness would imply..."

Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/19/graph-how-wind-power-displaced-coal-power-in-spain/#sfBQDe6sRdFYrQXB.99

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