Sentences with phrase «wind power output»

Instead, it depends on how well changes in wind power output can be anticipated.

The finding that there have been a number of instances of seriously low wind power output is another useful bit of data, and a very important one.

For this reason, forecasting wind power output is important.

During the past five years capacity additions of wind turbines were the main driver of the growth in wind power output.

Because wind power fails when the wind stops blowing, 100 % of its capacity has to be backed up 100 % of the time by fossil fuels which run constantly in the background to balance the grid and prevent blackouts when wind power output collapses:

Because wind power fails to deliver at all hundreds of times each year, 100 % of its capacity has to be backed up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generation sources — which run constantly in the background to balance the grid and prevent blackouts when wind power output collapses — as it does on a routine, but unpredictable, basis (see our posts here and here and here and

Events like the one above aren't one offs, as the post linked above points out, they happen whenever wind power output collapses, as it does every single day.

While wind power output collapses have caused plenty of mass load shedding and Australia's first statewide blackout, there is still the pretence of trying to keep the lights on, across the economically beleaguered state.

«Increase in exports to Germany, higher consumption and falling hydro inflows are bullish factors, while stronger wind power output is to hold back Nordic prices,» a Point Carbon analyst said.

Combined wind power output in Denmark and Sweden was forecast to firm by an hourly average of 810 MW to 3,140 MW on Tuesday, a bearish factor.

Pointless & Pathetic: South Australia's Wind Power Output Repeatedly Plummets During Summer Heatwave (Again)-- STOP THESE THINGS

At $ 150 million to get 100 MW worth of Tesla's battery storage (said by its boosters to deliver 129 MWh), the cost of tooling up to accommodate 700 - 1,000 MW wind power output collapses every other day would pretty soon add up to $ billions.

Base - load generators are designed to run 24 x 7 and the interference caused by intermittent wind power output is having a dramatic effect on their ability to operate profitably.

This would add about 28 TWh additional wind power output per year from offshore.

«As wind power output collapsed... the period from 4 pm to 7 pm saw the 5 minute interval price twice top $ 13,000 per MWh.»

«With wind power output heading south, the spot price for the 5 minute interval topped $ 9,000 per MWh for something that costs coal - fired plant less than $ 50 to deliver (at a profit).»

(China's Shanxi province, the stronghold of the coal industry, just reported record wind power output.)

Coal plant breakdowns and low wind power output force National Grid to pay dozens of businesses to reduce their energy usage

One «justification» put up by the wind industry and its parasites for the social and economic chaos caused by spiralling power costs and — in places like notionally wind «powered» South Australia — load shedding and blackouts (caused by daily wind power output collapses) is the claim that investment in wind power would create a -LSB-...]

Earlier in the week we covered the unfolding calamity in South Australia — where a sudden wind power output collapse plunged 110,000 homes into darkness, across most of the State, without warning:

Sure enough the owners of conventional generation plant are regularly engaged in power price gouging, whenever wind power output collapses, a point picked up in this piece.

However, if Hazelwood closes in the next few weeks, as planned, the number of occasions when South Australia literally grinds to a halt, when wind power output collapses, can only increase.

We need to figure out how to storage that energy so that we don't need to keep natural gas power plants spinning as backup in case there's an unforeseen change in wind power output, or to pick up the slack on days when there's simply no wind.

Their finest trait is their ability to shift the narrative, when troublesome facts — like blackouts caused by wind power output collapses and rocketing power -LSB-...]

Wind power output in Denmark and Sweden was expected to gain by an hourly average of 920 MW on Saturday and by 1,890 MW on Sunday from Friday.

As pointed out by The Australian, the yawning gaps in SA's wind power output weren't back - filled by wind power lovingly stored in Musk's Marvel, but by the trusty and reliable coal - fired plants still merrily chugging away in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said: «While Sunday's weather caused disruption for many people, it also proved to be a good day for wind power output, with wind turbines alone providing the equivalent of all Scotland's total electricity needs.

Despite the hype about South Australia being the «world's renewables leader» and «the wind power capital of Australia», every other day, SA's wind power output collapses, on a total and totally unpredictable basis: dropping by anything from 700 MW to 1,000 MW in a matter of minutes (see above the entire output from SA's 19 wind farms with a combined notional capacity of 1,698 MW during January).

With an election in March, and terrified that another wind power output collapse will deliver another mass load shedding event or statewide blackout, Weatherill plugged into a mega-battery supplied by Elon Musk for a cool $ 150 million, that -LSB-...]

At the time I'm writing this, wind power output is 4695 MW.

STT can't wait to hear the cynical efforts from wind worshippers to explain and spin away the hundreds of avoidable deaths, that will inevitably occur, during Britain's fast looming, dark and bitter winter — when wind power output collapses; the grid along with it; and little old ladies freeze to death in their unlit homes.