Not exact matches
But
electricity must be supplied to match the
demand of each
moment.
When generators fail, as they did last winter in Texas, controllers lean on «
demand - response customers» — large
electricity users, like factories, that are paid to be on call, ready to use a little less or even shut everything off at a
moment's notice.
«The
moment that you move to electric cars, then the
electricity demand is such that you are creating a huge opportunity for new
electricity sources to come online, and this will be the day that solar will prevail.»
The UK Government has already committed the country to meeting 15 per cent of all energy and 30 per cent
electricity demand via renewable sources by 2020 but at the
moment energy crops are responsible for less than 0.1 per cent of UK
electricity.
To its credit and downfall, Ontario's
electricity market is utterly transparent — anyone with a computer can monitor the
demand for
electricity and the supply available at any given
moment (as well as many other facets of the system).
Bloom's final point is that other nations and grids have proven this with real - world experience, citing
moments when wind has met more than 100 % of Denmark's
electricity demand and wind and solar have supplied nearly 100 % of German
demand.
Installations of wind generators continue to increase, and with them the challenge of successfully integrating large amounts of intermittent generation while still maintaining the
moment - to -
moment balance of
electricity supply and
demand that is essential for stable operation of the power grid.