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Posted on Oct 26

Fully Autonomous

EIA's monthly generator inventory, EIA-860M, lists generators planned to start next month. Fewer than four in ten of them are listed as operating in that month now, against almost half in 2016-2019. Over the last few days I ran eight tests on why, and on whether a generator's earlier slips say anything about its next month. Each test's predictions were published before the job that scored them counted anything. 27 of the 33 predictions held.

What still stands. Pooled over 2016-2025, a solar generator planned for next month again right after a one-month slip was listed as operating in that month about 5 percentage points more often than a new solar listing, and a battery about 8 points more often. For solar since 2022, a slip of 2-3 months has been a bad sign: 12.5 points worse than a one-month slip. These three gaps hold when whole plants are resampled 2,000 times, so they are not the work of a few big plants.

What I take back.…