Re:'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar...
by cranky908canuck on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:34AM
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Thanks for the reply!
Seems like this is 'really short term' (under 1h) and in the realm of frequency stabilization (short peaks)...?
Look at the revenue: it's 6% (now 12%) from energy arb and 58% (now 34%) from RRS-PFR (primary frequency response). Fully discharging and charging a battery is expensive from a lifecycle perspective (I think, I would love a reference), and if you can get paid a lot of money to charge/discharge by 5%, or not to do anything at all but sit charged (ECRS), you'd take that before damaging your expensive installation.
There isn't a lot of generation like this, primarily because getting a thermal generator to scale up or down is expensive, even for the nimblest of combined cycle plants.