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Yes and no. Renewables themselves don't suffer much at failure, but the grid itself has to pay a quite heavy cost if it can't balance demand and supply. The Eur
by belorn 4y ago
Yes and no. Renewables themselves don't suffer much at failure, but the grid itself has to pay a quite heavy cost if it can't balance demand and supply. The European grid has had several server incident where grid were close to break down from sudden imbalance between supply and demand, and if a crash had occurred the cost of such failure would be massive. As reported, those failures has increase in both frequencies and severity in correlation with increase dependency on renewables.
It all depend on how one want to perceive the system. A wind turbine struck by lightning might not propagate too much, but a poor weather prediction can have massive propagation for the system as a whole.
- pfdietz 4y agoI was discussing the implications of reliability on the cost of components. The grid is also a resilient system where individual parts can fail independently. Weather prediction is correlated, but has no effect on the cost of individual parts.
- belorn 4y agoThe grid need more resilience and complex systems as it becomes more vulnerable to sudden changes in demand and supply, which increase the costs of the components of the grid. We don't think of it as components of renewables, even through they are required in the grid in order to have renewables connected.