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Rachel Walden: “We have to have natural gas peaker plants that can be ramped…”

Featuring: Rachel Walden, Republican | Arizona Corporation Commission

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Arizona Debates: Corporation Commission

Published | Video Starts at 32:34

That kind of intermittent power can be billions of dollars and lost productivity for the companies that are here and that want to move here. So We have to have natural gas peaker plants that can be ramped up quickly or ramped down quickly. so that we meet that peak demand. We can't afford to have unreliability. And that's what we would have with just a pure green portfolio. (32:34–32:41)

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Asserts the necessity of natural gas peaker plants for quick ramp-up or ramp-down to meet peak demand.

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