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| Fri, 15th Feb 2019 13:03:00 |
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Intermittency, Storage, & Politics — The Case For & Against Super Grids |
Intermittency is the new buzzword in the clean energy revolution. For opponents of renewables, it is the reason why we should stop building all those solar power plants and wind turbine farms. Better to just use good old fashioned coal the way our great grandfathers did. “The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow!” they cry, and of course, on a very superficial level, they are right. In order to supply the electrical needs of the world, we need wind and solar, and something else — something that can keep the lights on when the winds turn calm and the sun goes behind a cloud.
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In a recent interview with PV Magazine, Indra Overland, a member of the International Renewable Energy Agency’s research panel for the global commission on the geopolitics of the energy transition, says “In any given place, the sun will not shine or the wind will not blow sometimes. But the greater the number of locations that are connected into one grid, the more likely it is that the sun will be shining and the wind blowing on some part of the grid, which can then supply the other parts.”
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