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Table 6

Down time for different energy generation or storage technologies.

Technology	Down time capcdown (%)	Reference
Roof top solar PV	1.5	Jacobson et al. [50]
Utility scale solar PV	1.5	Jacobson et al. [50]
Wind	3	Faulstich et al. [51]
Storage	10	Dubarry et. al. [52]
Energy efficiency	0^*
Coal	16.83	Cochran et al. [53]
Gas	15	Gouveia et al. [54]

Energy efficiency measures chosen to involve intrinsic or passive design improvements with no down time, or active systems with equivalent or better reliability than those they replace.

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