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the amount generated is more relevant. stating capacity is misleading: ofc higher amount generated implies higher capacity.
1gw solar power plant will produce (random numbers) 4gwh in 4 hours per day ( in summer it produces 10gwh in 10 hours per summer day, and 2gwh in 2 hours per winter day, 4 kinda annual average, again, random.. ) so in a year, it produces 4*365= 1460gwh, when 100% uptime, less if there is downtime. fossil for exemple: 1gw fossil plant produces 24gwh per day, thats 8760gwh per year but with 100% year long uptime: 20% downtime->7008gwh only, so on and so forth..stating capacity is misleading, show us productions graphs that could help judge how much generated in said area per year.
Sure...but don't use capacity to compare directly with amount generated. Mixing units like that in a comparison tends to result in nonsense answers.