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…grid at a point when the grid is already saturated with renewables, and these incremental renewables will be curtailed. https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/inter-correlations-between-offshore-wind-farms/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/inter-correlations-between-solar-assets/ You could build more renewables into these grids, but…
…nuclear, renewables, et al. However, due to the sale of RECs, debatably, I can no longer claim some of those renewables are part of my grid mix, as they have…
…more renewables. The lowest-cost, zero-carbon power grid, we find, comprises c25% renewables, c25% nuclear and c50% decarbonized gas, with an incentive price of 9c/kWh. $579.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Pages…
…to add more than 1-2% to the cost of an overall renewables project. https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/onshore-wind-the-economics/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/utility-scale-solar-power-the-economics/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/electric-vehicle-charging-the-economics/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/08/19/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts/ Examples of our research into future renewables costs are linked below. Again, we…
…main reason for curtailment is bottlenecks in the grid — i.e., moving renewables from points of generation, to points of unmet demand — rather than renewables having saturated total grid…
…this model playing around already as renewables+batteries co-deployments accelerate. A battery like this can realistically achieve 1-3 charge-discharge cycles per day. But some renewables advocates have grander ambitions, to use…
…of energy consumption. Falling utilization rates also underpin a levelized cost paradox for renewables. Our favorite method to backstop the volatility of renewables is via demand shifting, which will help…
…case, especially based on where these renewables are deployed (page 5). There are five key conclusions from net EROEI. Renewables have net energy returns on energy investment that are ‘lower…
…shifting might involve turning an electrical load off when renewables are not generating, and turning it back on when renewables are generating. Or as a less extreme example, demand shifting…
…intercorrelation of renewables, and especially as renewables get built out, this may turn out to be too high. The underlying source of the data is from NERC’s annual long-term reliability…