Capital cost of these plants is significant, which is why most of them run 24 hours per day. If you only run them 8 hours per day, you triple the capital cost.
How do you power such plants? Good thing if you're an oil-rich country that can just readily burn what flows from the wells anyway (say, UAE). A bit harder if you don't have anything like that (say, Namibia or West Sahara).
This is a nothing story. Court cases have many checkpoints along the way and this case has passed a very minor checkpoint that is almost always passed. The real meat is yet to come.
When sources were inherently dispatchable, like coal/oil/gas, reliability was free. Markets have not been updated to reflect the value of reliability. It may be just an oversight of slow moving regulators. Or it may be intentional to allow the growth of unreliable wind and solar without making them bear their own cost of unreliability.
It addresses reliability by shedding the customers who don't pay a premium for reliability first. Most of the time, that can solve the problem. It is, as you say, imperfect because it doesn't allow that premium to be used to fund investment in reliable generation.
Public transit only makes sense in urban areas.
Urban areas tend to have high rates of crime.
This is one of the driving factors behind the popularity of personal transportation and suburban schools.
My county wanted to put in trams. You know the things that require non-alterable tracks? It was $14m per mile.
We have buses. Why couldn't people just use the buses? Because they're filled with trash and crime. So instead of just enforcing the law and imprisoning criminals, the county was courting spending hundreds of millions for a tram system. And the non-enforcement would have turned the trams into the same state the buses were in within a few years.
I'm also an Omada fan. I just have two APs right now but I love controlling them from a single dashboard and look forward to adding their ER605 router so I can put my security cameras on a separate VLAN.
I had been shaky in my opinion of them, being a China-based company, but after hearing the rave reviews I had to give them a shot. I've been nothing but happy and impressed. Wi-Fi APs are supposed to serve a few basic purposes, and serve them well. TP-Link has a winner so far in Omada.
I just need to get my controller setup now, so I can play with the dashboard. I had heard some features are missing from the controller that are on the AP web interface though. Which of them had you noticed missing?
