New Tech Needed for 100% Clean Energy, WECC Says
Resources that Act Like Gas-Fired Plants Required for Ramping, Inertia
In a 90% clean-energy scenario, high curtailments occur (right) unless new emerging clean and flexible (ECF) resources replace gas plants. | WECC
Jan 31, 2022
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A WECC study found that the West needs emerging technologies capable of replicating the performance of gas plants to reach 100% clean energy by 2040.