Sentences with phrase «grids in neighboring countries»

But it habitually produces only about 5 gigawatts of actual wind power, and when recently that output shot up to a record of more than 20 GW on a particularly windy weekend, cross-border connections to grids in neighboring countries had to be shut down because they couldn't handle the surging power.

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And this deceitful result is for a limited contribution to the energy mix of the renewables whose intermittence can only be tolerated by the grid up to now because neighbor countries are there to damp the wild fluctuations in production.

These «loop flows» have been blamed for congestion of cross-border transmission capacity and, worse, pose threats to the network security conditions of Germany's neighbors, the affected countries» grid operators said in a March 2012 report.