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Solar PV – the ultimate in reliable baseload generation?
Electricity generation from large fossil and nuclear power stations is necessarily intermittent, due to occasional plant outages, whereas the output from solar generators is variable but readily predictable, argues Blaise Kelly, suggesting that PV is the better baseload provider.
Article details
Journal title: Energy World
Publisher: Energy Institute
Countries: UK -
Subjects: Electricity generation, Energy consumption, Solar power, Photovoltaics, Baseload plants
