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Lamar Alexander: “The point I am leading to is that we often talk with renewable energy about 1,000 megawatts of electricity for wind and…”

On the recordMarch 2, 2010
The point I am leading to is that we often talk with renewable energy about 1,000 megawatts of electricity for wind and solar when only a one-third of that is actually produced by comparison with a coal plant or a gas plant or a nuclear powerplant where the electricity is produced 90 percent of the time.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander highlights the efficiency differences between renewable and traditional energy sources.

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