Critics question whether offshore wind will ever become competitive
with traditional generation sources, but some independent projections support the industry's optimism.
Demand response has been growing as a resource in these markets, but it has often come at the expense
of traditional generation resources.
While we know that distributed energy resources are often more resilient than
traditional generation infrastructure, they still make up only a small portion of the nation's energy infrastructure.
This transformative project is 2000 MW — showing that renewable energy can be sized to compete with the capacity
of traditional generation.
So, this could well prove to be the moment
when traditional generations fall away in the games industry, where manufacturers begin a new cycle of hardware releases interspersed with upgraded specs every few years to keep their machines relevant and competing with the PC market.
The case centers on an order from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that essentially put DR on par with
traditional generation sources in wholesale energy markets.
Order 745 mandated that demand response be compensated at the same rates
as traditional generation, but the D.C. Circuit Court vacated the order last year.
Despite recent sharp declines in the market price of natural gas, utility - scale solar and wind power remain cost - competitive complements to
traditional generation technologies, even without subsidies.
We are getting to a point where the Operating System and Gaming library define a console and where there are no
more traditional generations where the install base starts from zero.
This is because the 60 % renewables mix would be supplemented
by traditional generation, but the 100 % renewables capacity would require a new operating paradigm and new resources.
However, he also pointed out that PJM's Capacity Performance and ISO - NE's Performance Incentive will likely hurt demand response and
boost traditional generation.
If it stands, the current decision by the D.C. Circuit Court would be a great boon
for traditional generation — and a blow to demand response.
EnerNOC says this is the first project of its kind to draw upon demand response capacity from commercial and industrial sites to balance both increases and decreases in supply from renewable resources, as well
as traditional generation, responding if necessary to changing system needs in less than 10 minutes.
So, the central generation —
traditional generation — will still play a part, will still play a role in the future, but I think that role will be much different one and it will be a diminished one as more and more of these renewable resources come on line.
He believes
the traditional generation gap is also becoming a «brain gap,» because exposure to technology may wire the brain differently.
These resources are typically smaller in scale than
the traditional generation facilities that serve most of Ontario demand.
Solar electricity floods the grid in the afternoon and then creates a huge problem in the evening when
the traditional generation sources have to ramp up way faster than they're currently capable.
When distributed solar becomes more of a stress than a service to the grid, it transforms into solar - plus - storage and begins again the struggle to build economies of scale to drive its price down to levels competitive with
traditional generation.
Traditional generation, and large solar power plants similarly interconnected to the transmission system through substations, do not cause overvoltage or bidirectional energy flow concerns.