The French are finding out that combining nuclear power with unstable wind and sun is not a good idea and is a risk to the power grid. Spain recently had…
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Casting blame for the blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France
It has long been predicted that replacing conventional synchronous generators, which rotate together with the grid, with asynchronous inverter-based resources like wind, solar, and batteries will increase the risk of…
Have The Intermittent Energy Blackouts Begun?
As Schellenberger points out, with just “a hair” more frequency variation it could have been far worse. Will that happen some time soon? I’m not going to pretend I know.…
Spanish Grid Operator Warned of Nation’s Heavy Reliance on Renewable Energy in February
Investigations into the cause of the power outage are continuing. However, a great deal of focus is turning to a pair of solar power plants that appeared to have issues…
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