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Here's part of it: the diesel compressors might run at an efficiency of around 30%. A cogen power plant can be 60%. A 2x difference in the efficiency of power production will go along way towards overcoming the losses you take across the power lines, the additional electrical to mechanical loss, and overcoming the capital cost of the equipment, and the coal will be cheaper than diesel to start with. The other thing that was mentioned by the rep that we talked to in mid-April was that Mount Snow rents all their diesel compressors; going to electricity eliminates that cost as well.