Renewable Generation
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
4 statements about Renewable Generation, every show
Storrow: Solar generation mitigated Texas grid crises during summer heatwave
“They have issued some voluntary conservation notices, but it has not been quite as White knuckle driving as it has been in the last couple years, and a big part of that is, is the amount of renewable generation, and particularly solar, that they're having.”
Jaramillo: Multi-day intermittency is the key obstacle to full grid decarbonization
“There are multiple days of interminencies associated with any of the types of those kinds of generation wind, water, or solar, and so solving those becomes a key challenge for getting to a very deeply decarbonized electric system.”
Ramanathan: Industrial facilities should mimic crypto miners as flexible interruptible loads
“I think one of the reasons that cryptocurrency is interesting is because it's interruptible load. And so, you know, the crypto mining facilities are happy to use your low-cost green power and then go offline when it makes more sense to sell that green power. A…”
Hertz-Shargel: Siting Bitcoin mines beside existing renewables merely displaces clean power
“The reality is that The total number, the total amount of load on the system has grown, and therefore all you've done is displaced other customers who would be served by that renewable generation. So it's, and so your number of pigeons has grown, and so you kn…”