From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
More bad news for the wind industry:.
What is different about this one is that the PPA forces the wind farm to buy power on the spot market, when the wind does not provide enough:
In other words, the wind farm is obliged to pay the costs of its own intermittency. And, of course, when wind power is low, spot market prices rise.
This highlights the worthlessness of wind power, as when there is plenty of wind, the value of the product is low.
In this country it is energy consumers who have to pay the costs of intermittency, something which needs changing.
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When the wind companies are not paying for their intermittent nature, the rest of us are.
More good news. Wind and solar should always be made to pay for their non production. Enforce this one rule and all of this renewable mess will be behind us.
While I agree with the spirit of your utterance, it is impractical; how do you measure non-production, and how many new rules, regulations and agreements do you think will be necessary to lay down all the nitty gritty of THAT policy?
No, cut all subsidies, and only pay them for what they actually deliver. Not capacity, delivery, measured with the standard 1950’s style Wattmeter like every house has.
Good luck finding customers willing to install a second, separate supply, that only works ten hours a week, but that’s another issue.
Just think how far we could have been, had these gazillions been spent on battery technologies, instead of executive salaries and private jets.