Hydro
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Nolan: Large-scale nuclear is not cheaper than coal, gas, or hydro
“The schedule to bring it online for the large gigawatt scale projects has been uncertain. The costs are often above what's projected. And when you look at the total package, it's not cheaper than coal. It's not cheaper than natural gas. It's not cheaper than h…”
Kann: Proven clean baseload power is limited to hydro, nuclear, and geothermal
“The list of clean baseload power generation sources is sadly pretty short, and as far as proven technologies go, sorry, wave power, is really just hydro, nuclear, and geothermal.”
Feldman: Hydro is world's cheapest power source, followed by natural gas
“So the cheapest power in the world is, is Hydro. Without question. After that is natural gas.”
Schneider: Hydro and gas dispatch in parallel across US power markets
“If you looked last summer in the United States, in every power market where you have hydro and you've, you pulled up the dispatch curve, the daily dispatch curve of assets in a particular ISO, what you'd see is if you have hydro and you have gas, Hydro and gas…”
Schneider: ~130 GW of global hydropower will turn over within a decade
“There's something like a 130 gigawatts or so of hydro that is going to turn over here in the next decade, and i.e. Existing operating assets need new, new equipment real opportunity to make sure that those plants Stay online.”
Schneider: The infrastructure bill allocated ~$2.5B for hydropower upgrades and development
“So yes, I think in the infrastructure bill, which was passed two years ago, there was a very big chunk of money directly for upgrading hydro and making various improvements and in, in, in existing hydro as well as advancing development. Something like two and …”
Spector: New York's grid is roughly 50% zero-emission via hydro and nuclear
“Now if you look at the way the energy system works right now, statewide, it's pretty good. It's, like, 50% zero emission. A lot of that's actually hydro and the nuclear that you all have allowed to continue running.”