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A comment on Afghan opium growers have switched to solar power. Parent comment
https://www.energylivenews.com/2015/12/15/unplanned-shutdown...
Wind is intermitent but predictable. Loosing a turbine will not make the plant production go to zero (albeit loosing transmission will but same for all power plants).
On the other hand, we have times in Germany when wind and solar are producing less than 1% of their installed power.
https://www.energylivenews.com/2015/12/15/unplanned-shutdown...
Wind is intermitent but predictable. Loosing a turbine will not make the plant production go to zero (albeit loosing transmission will but same for all power plants).