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by extrapickles
3706 days ago
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While solar and wind reduce peak demand, they have problems where they can suddenly loose a significant fraction of their output capacity (lull in wind, clouds) and that capacity has to be filled in by traditional peaking power plants, otherwise the grid will fail. Also the amount of power generated is not very predictable[1], and peaking/load following plants are needed to remain in standby to cover the shortfalls as the base load plants can take quite a while to respond to shortages in the supply of power. [1]: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/downloads-englisch/pdf-file... |
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