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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
I do care about resiliency, that's what we should all care about for our power grid. Natural gas, coal, and nuclear have it, wind and solar don't. "Wind was vastly exceeding expected supply during the windy part of the storm."...until it wasn't windy anymore but still cold and people needed power. Wind and solar work great until they don't, you always need actually reliable power sources as your base. Making these sources the majority of the grid would be pure folly, as proven by Texas.
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If only there was some form of energy market that allowed for renewables but also protected against their downside by compensating other power plants for their capacity. What a great idea you've come up with DiracSpike. We shall call it...a market based on capacity. I think that has a nice ring to it.
I sure hope the Alberta government is looking into it.