Desert power plants

1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 19, 2026 by Drew Baglino · across every show →

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Feb 19, 2026 negative
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Baglino: Utility-scale solar plant transformers fail at about 1.4% per year
“Transformers are not really designed to run at their rated power, you know, as long as they do in these Desert power plants, you know, where they're, first of all, very hot, because they're sitting in the sun, and second of all, because they're running at name…”
Drew Baglino Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 38:29 The rise of grid power electronics with Drew Baglino
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