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In the modeled U.S. Midwest region for 2004, combined wind and solar portfolios achieved an average variability reduction of 55% below the average of individual sites. The study finds that a small subset of available sites is often sufficient to achieve most of these variability reductions. 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Using 2004 data from the U.S. Midwest and Texas, the analysis shows that optimizing portfolios based on negative covariance between sites improves capacity credit and system reliability. 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