Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech

Re:Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech by ip26 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:50PM (#22428816)

Wind is phenomenally cheap power, total demand at night is low, and wind production is usually highest at night. I would not be surprised if it always made sense to charge up storage at night.

The only exception would be if so much storage capacity came online that the variability of wind was completely absorbed & the arbitrage disappeared.

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Re:Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech by nradov on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:36PM (#22430189)

It depends on your location but must wind turbines produce less at night. https://carboncounter.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/are-wind-farm...

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Re:Things I Learned from Five Years in Climate Tech by ip26 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:44PM (#22430534)

Thanks, wasn't familiar with all those locales. I mostly think of Wyoming when I think wind power, but of course not everywhere is like Wyoming.

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