While such an approach involved higher investment costs and longer implementation times, it also provided greater flexibility and reliability of the plant solution selected: in fact, for the same amount of electricity and steam produced, the CCGT plant allows, thanks to the professionalism of the individuals who operate it and to the online performance control systems, lower specific fuel consumption than traditional units and a flexibility of use (understood as the possibility to quickly adapt production needs to the withdrawal requirements of the electricity network and the industrial complex) that is higher than standard thermoelectric power plants.