http://www.energymarketprice.com/SitePage.asp?act=NewsDetails&newsId=16066
[I remember industry analysts saying intermittent renewables would crash
the grid. Did not happen. I remember industry analysts saying
renewables would never be more than a trivial generator for the grid.
Did happen. I don't remember them saying that renewables would be so
plentiful that the grid could not actually accommodate them. Perhaps
they should have been thinking about fixing the transmission grid and
utility scale energy storage after all. Sustainable energy sources;
they're here, they're bigger than you think, and they're eating "big
energy's" lunch on costs, before adding carbon taxes or removing
decades-old subsidies to nuclear, coal and oil.
We have an analogous situation in Ontario, where wind generators are
encouraged to shut down generation some nights because our nuclear
fission fleet alone produces more power than we use (including
effectively running Niagara Falls backwards to a giant headpond - the
Welland River) and can sell to other jurisdictions combined. In
Ontario, despite a growing population, total provincial electricity
demand continues to fall 1% to 2% per year for 7 years in a row now.
Just imagine what could happen if our government got serious about
encouraging conservation and efficiency.]
British wind farms compensated by National Grid to stand idle
12/11/2014
British wind farms were remunerated by a record amount of £ 43,000,000
to stand idle so far this year because they were generating more power
that National Grid could cope with.
These payments are supported by consumer energy bills surcharges and are
mirroring the issue of rapid development of wind farms across the
country in the past four years without sufficient cable networks to
transport the power produced. Scottish wind farms received the majority
of these payments, as the bulk of wind farms are located in Scotland.
Scotland is already well and truly the renewable energy leader in the
United Kingdom, with nearly 40 percent of its energy coming from
renewable sources. However, electricity demand is sluggish in order to
use the power generated on windy days, but carrying the power south by
cables is not yet possible. As a consequence, National Grid has to pay
the wind farms operators to switch off their installations in order to
keep a balance between supply and demand. High winds last month
established new daily records for indemnity - with £3.07million paid to
33 wind farms to turn off on a single day, October 26.
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