That only proves that it's non-renewables that carry the load; if that load were lighter, the fossil fuel supply would not fail as much. Moving ~10-25% of the grid to "renewables" really just means you shrank your supply by that much and increased the stress on the remaining 75-90%.
Doesn't necessarily need regulation. Just make the penalties for failure to reduce promised power harsh.
This also lands fairly on renewables too. They would probably have more flexibility built into the contracts but the electricity price should be correspondingly lower too. Renewables have their place (especially if you can pair them with storage systems like hydro and potentially batteries) but treating them the same as more reliable systems for political reasons produces the normal nonsense.
Yes, it is how it works. You have rolling blackouts because the production is coming in too low to allow for repair downtimes on these plants. And that's caused by lack of redundancy and overall output brought about by shifting a quarter of the grid from working fossil fuel sources to boondoggle "green" garbage. The bottom line is that if these mills were instead fossil fuel plants (or much better, nuclear), then it's much more likely that the issues that the plants do experience could be managed with less loss of service.
Yes, but windmills are actually responsible for a smaller proportion of blackouts than their proportion of the grid from what I've seen.
That only proves that it's non-renewables that carry the load; if that load were lighter, the fossil fuel supply would not fail as much. Moving ~10-25% of the grid to "renewables" really just means you shrank your supply by that much and increased the stress on the remaining 75-90%.
It’s their culture, we can’t fault them for it ~ President Biden.
Doesn't necessarily need regulation. Just make the penalties for failure to reduce promised power harsh.
This also lands fairly on renewables too. They would probably have more flexibility built into the contracts but the electricity price should be correspondingly lower too. Renewables have their place (especially if you can pair them with storage systems like hydro and potentially batteries) but treating them the same as more reliable systems for political reasons produces the normal nonsense.
Yes, it is how it works. You have rolling blackouts because the production is coming in too low to allow for repair downtimes on these plants. And that's caused by lack of redundancy and overall output brought about by shifting a quarter of the grid from working fossil fuel sources to boondoggle "green" garbage. The bottom line is that if these mills were instead fossil fuel plants (or much better, nuclear), then it's much more likely that the issues that the plants do experience could be managed with less loss of service.