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What he means in the paper is, geopolitical boundaries. For example, Japan and China depending on each other's grids. Or the various African countries depending
by lumberjack 7y ago
What he means in the paper is, geopolitical boundaries. For example, Japan and China depending on each other's grids. Or the various African countries depending on each other. Or the middle eastern countries sharing a grid.
- petre 7y agoGood luck with that. The study could have concentrated on how to balance electrical grids using PHEV and flywheel storage instead on scifi solutions that are either inefficient, not applicable in the current geopolitical context or both.
- 6thaccount2 7y agoWhy should someone concentrate on that? This area is mostly understood fairly well. It's just the current amount of storage is tiny compared to the need. California has had 15 GW ramps before to give you the scale of what you'd need for only a grid with renewables and storage and technically you need much more than that. Uncertainty is one of the big topics in this area. Load forecast is very accurate, but wind and solar is difficult to get right in the day out timeline.