How might one seek to turn the economic and reliable grid into a costly, complicated system prone to blackouts? Discarding dependable generators and replacing with asynchronous intermittent technology would be…
Category: The Grid
Academics and the grid. Part II: Are they studying the right things?
discussing remote hopes and ignoring huge obstacles will lead to increased likelihoods of greater costs, worsening reliability and eventually unbearable blackouts.
Academics and the grid Part I: I don’t think that study means what you think it means
Recognizing the difference between what theory suggests and practical knowledge demonstrates is critical.
The Impossibility of Bridging The “Last 10%” On the Way To “100% Clean Electricity”
In other words, you will need about 35 times the capacity of solar panels as the amount of firm power that you are committed to provide.
Replacing Peaking Power Plants with Battery Energy Storage Systems
From the Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York Roger Caiazza In the last couple of years environmental advocates have vilified peaking power plants in their endless quest for zero risk to…
MIT Weighs in On Energy Storage
The Report is an exercise by genius would-be central planners concocting enormously complex models that just happen to come to the results that the authors are hoping for, while at…
How Much of the Grid Must Be Upgraded?
The study shows that electricity demand for all-electric homes peaks on winter mornings due to heating, and averages around 3.62 kW per home, or 264% of a mixed-fuel home’s peak…
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