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Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by roenxi on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:11PM (#19009987)
> However, saying that renewables are the cause of this is the same as saying that nuclear is the cause of Chernobyl.

Are you suggesting SA renewables suffered an unplanned failure this summer? I havn't heard anything about that and I expect that they have been functioning as expected and that you are mistaken. Do you have a source?

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Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by eigenvector on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:44PM (#19010090)
What I'm saying that is the loss of system security events that have occurred in Australia this summer are not inherent to the operation of the grid with high renewable penetration, but rather a failure of the system operator to plan adequately for foreseeable system conditions and contingencies, just like Chernobyl was not an inevitable occurrence linked to the underlying technology. So using the SA load-shedding events to say "renewables can't work at large scale" is similar to citing Chernobyl as a reason not to build new nuclear plants.

However, there was a very well documented failure of LVRT performance on wind turbines during the 2016 SA blackout.

https://www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/ea/Lessons%20Learned%20Document%...

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Re:Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress d... by VyperCard on Sunday January 27, 2019 @03:03AM (#19010830)
Just get good forecasts then energymeteo.com
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