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Who can generate at peak load, reliably, every hour of the day? Some areas have peak load in evening, when PV output is reduced.
by landemva 4y ago
Who can generate at peak load, reliably, every hour of the day? Some areas have peak load in evening, when PV output is reduced.
- coryrc 4y agoMost of the components don't have a meaningful "maximum load". There's a load with 40-year life, a load with 10-year life, and a load with 160-year life (and obviously this is a continuous curve). It's okay to spend some time at 10-year life load if you can spend more time at the 160-year load than the typical model expects.
- kragen 4y agothings like transformers have a 1-minute load which, if you don't exceed it, they'll last 40 years, but if you exceed it significantly, they'll often catch on fire and explode within a few minutes it's true that there's probably a load right at the rated load which will gradually cook the transformer over the course of 10 years or so, but that's a pretty narrow window that's the kind of capacity that needs to be expanded
- coryrc 4y agoIt's a far wider window than you think.
- kragen 4y agoi can't make any kind of sense out of your comment