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>Wind correlation drops exponentially as a function of distance. By what principle? I'm just curious, first time I'm hearing this.

• 7thaccount 2y ago
  They just mean if you have geographical diversity, it helps with the availability of renewables. For example, if wind is in 5 different locations across Alberta (for sake of example), you're less likely to run into issues with losing it all at once like you would if all your wind came from a single area and the wind stopped blowing there or dropped to a very low value.
  • Teever 2y ago
    Yeah but the downside to that in a place the size of Alberta is that you need to run electrical infrastructure that can handle the load of 4.3 million people across a 1000km distance.
    • Jensson 2y ago
      Sounds like Sweden or Norway, not very hard to do.
  • energy123 2y ago
    Yeah, and notably it's exponential in distance, not linear. There's also a diversification benefit for solar due to two reasons, one reason is rainfall is less likely to impact a large land mass at the same time, second is the sunset occurs at different times so you can have a one hour window to offset the evening peak of the other side of the country and vice versa in the morning. Although I don't believe these benefits are exponential as they are for wind.
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