One day, we may even master molten salt heat storage allowing for "peaker" plants reducing even further our need for peak demand Gas plants. Moltex's - Grid Reserve dispatch-able power when needed.
Wind & Solar are intermittent power sources, they inject chaos and instability into grid management requiring enormous back up sources available on an hours notice.
What's the source for this? Without an expanded header that explains what region this covers and where the data comes from it's hard to do much with this.
Followup to wind and solar Nameplate Capacity - should we not also apply, through the EPCM cycle, a full costing with a transparent audit reporting function using the "Scope 1, 2, and 3 of the GHG Protocol’s Emission Classification System:
Scope 1 emissions are GHGs released directly from a business.
Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHGs released from the energy purchased by an organization.
Scope 3 emissions are also indirect GHG emissions, accounting for upstream and downstream emissions from a product or service, and emissions across a business’s supply chain.
Nameplate Capacity The maximum output rating of a wind generator. A wind turbine that has a 1 MW nameplate capacity will produce 1 MW of power when operating at it’s rated output. Clarification please: when solar and wind capacity are characterized in graphs and other types of reporting (IPCC for example) do they use "the nameplate capacity" i.e the manufacturers optimum performance capabilities or ratings as bench-tested? Or does the reporting reflect actual power generated and utilized? Just curious.
That's a good question. Usually generators are rated at continuous duty for a certain (long) time before insulation deterioration due to heat. And usually nowadays they have an added service factor of 10% or 15% on top of that, so you can exceed that rating for long periods, though it will reduce insulation life. But with wind there is no continuous duty, they always cycle. And too much wind speed can destroy them so they have to brake.
And then with solar there is the DC nameplate capacity and the maximum AC output. I figure EIA rates wind & solar sites by their maximum output over a year as their capacity, which may be substantially less than nameplate capacity.
One day, we may even master molten salt heat storage allowing for "peaker" plants reducing even further our need for peak demand Gas plants. Moltex's - Grid Reserve dispatch-able power when needed.
Wind & Solar are intermittent power sources, they inject chaos and instability into grid management requiring enormous back up sources available on an hours notice.
What's the source for this? Without an expanded header that explains what region this covers and where the data comes from it's hard to do much with this.
Followup to wind and solar Nameplate Capacity - should we not also apply, through the EPCM cycle, a full costing with a transparent audit reporting function using the "Scope 1, 2, and 3 of the GHG Protocol’s Emission Classification System:
Scope 1 emissions are GHGs released directly from a business.
Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHGs released from the energy purchased by an organization.
Scope 3 emissions are also indirect GHG emissions, accounting for upstream and downstream emissions from a product or service, and emissions across a business’s supply chain.
Nameplate Capacity The maximum output rating of a wind generator. A wind turbine that has a 1 MW nameplate capacity will produce 1 MW of power when operating at it’s rated output. Clarification please: when solar and wind capacity are characterized in graphs and other types of reporting (IPCC for example) do they use "the nameplate capacity" i.e the manufacturers optimum performance capabilities or ratings as bench-tested? Or does the reporting reflect actual power generated and utilized? Just curious.
That's a good question. Usually generators are rated at continuous duty for a certain (long) time before insulation deterioration due to heat. And usually nowadays they have an added service factor of 10% or 15% on top of that, so you can exceed that rating for long periods, though it will reduce insulation life. But with wind there is no continuous duty, they always cycle. And too much wind speed can destroy them so they have to brake.
And then with solar there is the DC nameplate capacity and the maximum AC output. I figure EIA rates wind & solar sites by their maximum output over a year as their capacity, which may be substantially less than nameplate capacity.
Dutch weather service writes that wind turbines seem to change weather patterns : https://www.knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/windparken-mengen-zich-in-het-weer