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[–] HairHeel@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could have just as easily said it would have been “much worse” without fossil fuels.

When soaring temperatures and demand for cooling led to a peak in Sicilian power demand on 24 July, nearly half of the excess demand - which totalled 1.3 GW - was covered by solar, Refinitiv data show.

So basically wherever the 1.3 GW of capacity came from (could be a bolt of lightning, or some Libyan plutonium, for example), it would have been much worse if they didn’t have it.

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Could have just as easily said it would have been “much worse” without fossil fuels.

Sure, but heat-wave weather doesn't increase the supply of fossil fuel energy.