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Originally Posted by Tron_fdc
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Actually, what I was thinking was more along the lines of everyone is happily generating say 40% of their own power. The power generating system only needs to maintain 60% of the work (but still must be able to pick up 100%). What happens if a dark weatherfront crosses teh province, or it is at night and the wind suddenly dies down, and the generating facilities need to now generate 90%.
How long does it take to get up to that capacity? What if the wind is gusting - does that cause the wind generation to fluctuate a lot?
I guess I'm thinking that since you can't store AC and most people/electrical systems require a fairly steady power source, that a power system were any significant portion of the power generation comes from a highly variable/unreliable source would hace unique and challenging issues.