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[โ€“] mr_washee_washee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

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.