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In a 90% clean-energy scenario, high curtailments occur (right) unless new emerging clean and flexible (ECF) resources replace gas plants. | WECC

New Tech Needed for 100% Clean Energy, WECC Says

Resources that Act Like Gas-Fired Plants Required for Ramping, Inertia

Jan 31, 2022
Hudson Sangree
WECC / CAISO/WEIM / Energy Storage / Onshore wind / Utility-scale solar

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.

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