
In the poorly understood world of electrical generation and transmission, a strange tale is unfolding. The media won’t touch it with a ten-foot pole, for a number of reasons – first, it is miles over their head, and second, the conclusions run counter to their current bombastic narrative about the “renewable energy revolution”.
There is a risk in even discussing the situation, because in the powder-keg debate of climate change vs. lifestyle, the denier police are on high alert to brand your forehead with a big smoking D if you so much as breathe anything other than blind obedience.
But reality cannot be ignored, not for very long anyway. So now that I’ve put on my armour, here goes. I’ve mentioned the topic in the past few posts, but here’s the full situation: the more predominant wind and solar power become on a grid, the less functional the grid becomes.
An electrical grid has a massive task: to balance a continuous and near perfect synchronicity between power supplies and load on the grid. Neither is static, particularly in a world moving to wind and solar. It used to be that demand was variable and supply was constant (or controllable), but when both variables can fluctuate wildly there can be chaos. And in the world of electricity, chaos means “you get none”.
Two examples bring the point home clearly. I’ve mentioned these before briefly in recent posts; here are the more robust stories.
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