The Hidden Costs of Keeping Gas Plants Online in Texas and Beyond, New gas-fired power plants can't compete with clean energy
These risks across the gas supply chain are at odds with the pervasive narrative that fossil fuel-fired power plants are uniquely reliable in keeping the lights on. As we’ve seen in dozens of cases, in weather cold and
Adding this cost would make almost all proposed gas plants more expensive than clean energy alternatives. With the added cost of firm gas supply, we found that 95 percent of gas plants proposed for construction across the country would cost more than building a clean energy portfolio — a combination of wind, solar, battery energy storage, demand flexibility, and energy efficiency that can provide the same reliability services.
Exhibit 1. Impact of internalizing the cost of firm gas supply on the competitiveness of new gas plants
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