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Oh good another thread I won't be able to read through without white knuckling through some stupendously over-confident developers who think they know everythin

• epistasis 3y ago
  It can be good to criticize knowledge levels when there's some specificity that allows people to improve. But very vague complaints don't contribute much. And it's interesting what is considered "knowledge" versus "tradition" in the space. Hang out on a forum of grid ops over the last two decades, and you will find that a lot of the "knowledge" about the industry is really just plain wrong, and better understood by a technologist than by a practitioner. Like the idea of the necessity of spinning reserves. Grid ops know they need reactive power, and lots of spinning turbines to help keep it. But they don't realize the power of solar inverters to perform the same thing, so you hear stories about the entire grid falling apart when you hit 5% solar. Really silly stuff, but it turns out if you think from first principles instead of "common sense" you can envision a much better future.
  • idiotsecant 3y ago
    ...spinning reserve has almost nothing to do with reactive power control? Do you know what reactive power is? Spinning reserve is almost entirely there as a means of secondary frequency response. You're not making your case very well ...