At extremely high levels of renewables, flexibility resources do become more important and things like demand response, new fast -
ramp gas turbines, or energy storage might be viable.
Not exact matches
He has called for building more nuclear and coal plants,
ramping up the state's natural
gas use, opening offshore oil and
gas resources, as well as putting wind
turbines offshore and electric cars on its roads.
As the
gas turbine starts and
ramps up, it increases its output at the steepest possible gradient right up to full load, without waiting for staggered startup of the steam
turbine, as is customary.
Worse, these would need to be inefficient simple - cycle
gas turbines (due to the need to be able to
ramp up and down within minutes if the wind changes) meaning that the CO2 emissions reductions compared to using
gas alone (using more efficient combined - cycle
gas turbines) are negligible.