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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Not a nitpick at all...I wish I could talk about this more! Let me know if you want a good book list on this. There are several out there with full Matlab code to accompany the equations. It has trigonometric identities in all the equations
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
This is what transmission planning engineers do for a living. Distribution planning engineers do it on a smaller scale. Back in the day, the utility would look at population growth which correlates well with electrical demand growth and did
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
In the USA a very large geographical subsection can lose many GW of instantaneous wind generation across an hour, which can be concerning if the system is currently running pretty economic (not a whole lot of excess reserves). The way dispa
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
You also need base load during the day when wind is blowing and it all of a sudden disappears. Don't say this doesn't happen as I've seen it many times. Think about it. Wind might be 30% or more of your dispatch and then it j
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
If anyone wants to get a really good view for year to year changes in fuel mix by region, just look for your RTO or ISO's website. ISO-NE, PJM, MISO, SPP, ERCOT, & CAISO all track this in real-time and do regular reports on it. The
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Thanks!
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Good to know, thanks! I've used software compiled with the Intel compiler, but have only written some toy programs in GFortran and it seems fast enough. I like the revival idea behind LFortran though. Reading scientific C++ is much mor
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by new4thaccount 7y ago
Question: What is a good Fortran compiler/implementation these days? I know they have Intel and IBM and SimplyFortran as commercial software. GFortran works via GCC. Is it as good? Has anyone on here used this LFortran.