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Flexible generation: a role for India’s stressed and stranded gas-based power plants?

Allocating India’s additional domestic gas supply to the power sector would enable some stranded and underutilised gas-based plants to serve as flexible generation – providing an interim solution to firm variable renewable energy while battery storage scales up and becomes cost-competitive, according to this new report by the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).