grid stability, Tag

...shutting down functioning, reliable, megawatt fossil fuel plants ≠ enough power when you need it.

A just published Australian Energy Market Operator report highlights the urgent "opportunity" for the provision of reliable electricity to Australia's East Coast grid.

The truth is that integrating increasing amounts of solar and wind is complicated, expensive and poses reliability risks. 

…and there were predictions that Texas was going to be in trouble

We are seeing blackouts and system problems all over the world now, unlike in the past. There is a common factor for most – high penetration of intermittent asynchronous wind and solar generation.

the real cause of this looming disaster has been the government enforced shutdown of most of our coal generating capacity during the last decade:

Germany’s massive, subsidized expansion of electricity generation from renewable sources has squeezed out conventional generation units out of the market...

The simple fact is that wind/solar plus battery systems would not need any government subsidies if they were cost effective. The Biden Administration is proposing to hand out many, many tens of billions of dollars to subsidize...

The result of all the government meddling is becoming glaringly clear: the country now finds itself on the verge of blackouts due to grid instability, has the highest electricity prices in the world, relies more on imports...

Vanadium is expensive, though the price fluctuates wildly - currently $11K to $15K / tonne of Vanadium Pentoxide. But advocates claim Vanadium flow batteries have the potential to solve the intermittency of renewable energy.

The body of this silly paper found observationally lower grid frequency variations in larger ‘isolated’ European subgrids! Of course larger grids have less frequency variation— something trivially true and known for...

You are trading the loss of 3000 megawatts for the collapse of the entire system of California and perhaps the entire West. […] When you're at the very edge and you have a contingency and you have no operating reserves,...

Guest post by Rud Istvan Part One provided a high level overview of SoCalEd’s silly version of the Green New Deal. This second guest post flies strafing low and slow over point one of five of SoCalEd’s net neutral carbon...

From Breitbart by James Delingpole 12 Aug 2019 Boris Johnson’s government is shuffling towards a gigantic cliff edge which has nothing to do with Brexit...

From The GWPF Date: 04/03/19 Dr John Constable, GWPF Energy Editor The UK’s electricity network is likely to become significantly weaker within five years, due to falling Short Circuit Levels that reduce the reliability...