The Generation Fleet: Capacity, Availability, Capacity Factor & Energy Mix
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You turn installed MW and capacity factors into annual MWh per technology, build the energy mix, total the available capacity and compare the renewable share of energy with the renewable share of capacity.
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Lessons in this course
- Load Curves: Peak, Average, Load Factor & the Load-Duration Curve Locked
- The Generation Fleet: Capacity, Availability, Capacity Factor & Energy Mix Locked
- Marginal Cost: Fuel, Efficiency, Carbon Price & Variable O&M Locked
- Merit-Order Dispatch: Ranking Plants and Finding the Clearing Price Locked
- Wind & Solar Feed-In: Residual Load and the Clearing Price Hour by Hour Locked
- Resource Adequacy: Firm Capacity, Reserve Margin & Shortfall Hours Locked
- Generator Economics: Inframarginal Rent and the Capture Price of Solar Locked
- Market Dashboard: Price-Duration Curve, Energy Mix & Emissions Intensity Locked