http://gigaom.com/2011/04/15/can-solar-smart-grid-speak-the-same-language/ Wed, 22 May 2013 13:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/04/15/can-solar-smart-grid-speak-the-same-language/#comment-617186 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:41:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=330767#comment-617186 Still missing here is the capability to store the electric power generated by these solar and wind farms, that being intermittant by nature are otherwise useless, when not annoying for the grid they are connected to.
Without storage solar and wind farms, can’t be used as a predictible source of energy by Grid administrators, forcing them to keep the same number or Nuclear or Fossil Fuel production units on line to cope with demand, making the energy generated by green sources useless.
This improved communication will not change that substentially before appropriate storage can be added to sun and wind farms, representing extra investments and pushing away the moment where they could be as efficient as the other sources for the grid.
This will just allow Grid operators to shut them down more easily, preventing them to buy green energy sure to be wasted. May be the kick required for sun and wind farms to understand they have no other choice than adding electricity storage so they can become a predictable and relable hence usefull source of energy for the grid, that can’t depend on clouds and wind flows and stops….

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