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The graph is pretty interesting. It shows that the contribution of wind can outweight other renewables by a huge margin. It also shows that the contribution o
by tmalsburg2 11y ago
The graph is pretty interesting. It shows that the contribution of wind can outweight other renewables by a huge margin. It also shows that the contribution of wind can range between almost 0% to more than 50% depending on the weather. The storage capacity needed to smooth out these differences must be breathtaking. Hard to believe that lithium-ion batteries can make a meaningful contribution to that.
- the8472 11y agoDuring the summer solar can stack on top of the wind energy, but obviously only during daytime. This causes even more uneven distributions. Select weeks 30 and 31 on [1] for example. The overproduction caused quite a spike in exports. Storage is one part of the solution, but not the only one. Adaptive consumption and simply building overcapacity are additional options. [1] https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm