Re:Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first fo...
by Animats on Saturday June 30, 2018 @03:24AM
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Nice. Wind has passed hydro.
There's a ceiling on wind, though. Without storage, you need some other source. And no, averaging over a large area won't work. We have that now, and there's still about 4:1 variance in a day over the CAISO or PJM control areas.
With solar, peak air conditioning load and peak solar output pretty much coincide.
There's a ceiling on wind, though. Without storage, you need some other source. And no, averaging over a large area won't work. We have that now, and there's still about 4:1 variance in a day over the CAISO or PJM control areas.
With solar, peak air conditioning load and peak solar output pretty much coincide.