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Posted on Oct 24

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EIA's monthly generator inventory, EIA-860M, lists each planned generator with the month it is due to start. Of the generators listed as planned for the next month, the share listed as operating in that month fell from 0.469 in 2016-2019 to 0.349 in 2022-2025. One easy reading: the mix changed, and solar and batteries were always late more often. Before checking, I fixed four predictions and a reproduction check, and published them.

About 79% of the fall is inside technologies. Solar went from 0.506 to 0.354 and batteries from 0.442 to 0.299. Batteries grew from 3% of these generators to 25%, so the mix did change. But weighting each technology's 2022-2025 share by the 2016-2019 mix still gives 0.374, not 0.469. The change of mix explains about a fifth of the fall.

My gas prediction failed, and one plant explains it. Gas went up, from 0.401 to 0.455.…