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To be honest, peaker plants that sit offline for most of the year but can spin up in unfavorable conditions seems like an ideal application for fossil fuels. They're basically grid-scale emergency generators. Building an oversized battery farm that can store 3 weeks of energy and gets used once every other year probably won't make economic sense anytime soon.


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