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It'd be a boon for renewables if energy consuming plant costs were less dominated by investment in equipment. Imagine doing shift planning at such a site thoug
by lovemenot 7y ago
It'd be a boon for renewables if energy consuming plant costs were less dominated by investment in equipment.
Imagine doing shift planning at such a site though. Eight days from now, there's a 60% chance of wind in excess of 5m/s between 22.00 and 06.00. But labour costs would be 130% higher than 06.00 to 14.00 on that day. On that morning shift there's a 50% chance of clear skies ...
- caf 7y agoIf only there was some form of programmable electronic computation device that could be used to solve such complex sets of constraints modelled as equations :)
- TeMPOraL 7y agoIt's not the calculation part that's the problem, it's the investment part (and perhaps also labor part).
- pedantsamaritan 7y agoI would be sad to be the worker subject to that shift planning
- VBprogrammer 7y agoI think the savings in planning for low duty cycle probably result from reduced redundancy i.e. installing one pressure pump instead of two. Which naturally means when there is a low chance of excess energy is a good time to work on maintaining the systems rather than just taking one off line and working on the other. This means that you just staff it at a consistent level and plan the work around the energy levels.