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Brian H
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Aeronaut wrote: Hopefully we’ll know the initial cooling limit experimentally within 2 years. I agree with running most FFs around 90 to 95% of rated capacity. $10M worth of DPFs idled for system stability will go a lonnnggg ways. Just think, that might be enough to commission a study!

I think that would work out to about 200MW worth of “slack”. What % of current capacity is in the gap between average and peak demand, I wonder.