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Jonathon Hill: “Natural gas plants do play an important role in the power…”

Featuring: Jonathon Hill, Democratic | Former Candidate, Arizona Corporation Commission

Jonathan Hill, Candidate for AZ Corporation Commission

Published January 30, 2022 | Video Starts at 42:00

Obviously, I'm not, I think in the long term, we need to obviously move away from that. Right now, though, those Natural gas plants do play an important role in the power grid. They can be very responsive to spikes in power usage. That's something that renewable energy sources have a problem with. It's hard to ramp them up or ramp them down on demand. (42:00–42:07)

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