The governing factor for determining storage needs is not a 4 or 5 day dunkelflaute, it is series of dunkelflauten interspersed with periods of moderate winds that provide power but are not sufficient to recharge batteries. The storage requirements are not 4 or 5 days of demand, but 25 to 30 days. There is no economically viable method of providing that storage. Even the dumbest of politicians will eventually recognize that fact, and realize they should have been building nuclear over the last 30 years instead of wasting resources on wind and solar.
Nordic countries always amaze. What other country, seeing a 20 - 190 times increase in the price of its exports, decides the right policy is to ... cut off exports?
I want to make two comments: having natural gas plants for backup and not using them is what sucess looks like: probably the gas storage and backup shall be nationalized.
Second: we shall allow and incentivize industrial consumers that renounce their backup supply. A clear separation between cost of delivered electricity and cost of backup, is in my view essential to deal with renewables.
Finally, electric vehicles if optimize their demand (they shall be plugged as much as possible, and inteligently recharge) can be key:
The governing factor for determining storage needs is not a 4 or 5 day dunkelflaute, it is series of dunkelflauten interspersed with periods of moderate winds that provide power but are not sufficient to recharge batteries. The storage requirements are not 4 or 5 days of demand, but 25 to 30 days. There is no economically viable method of providing that storage. Even the dumbest of politicians will eventually recognize that fact, and realize they should have been building nuclear over the last 30 years instead of wasting resources on wind and solar.
Nordic countries always amaze. What other country, seeing a 20 - 190 times increase in the price of its exports, decides the right policy is to ... cut off exports?
I want to make two comments: having natural gas plants for backup and not using them is what sucess looks like: probably the gas storage and backup shall be nationalized.
Second: we shall allow and incentivize industrial consumers that renounce their backup supply. A clear separation between cost of delivered electricity and cost of backup, is in my view essential to deal with renewables.
Finally, electric vehicles if optimize their demand (they shall be plugged as much as possible, and inteligently recharge) can be key:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jJap6KhzFe3mgh32M/electric-vehicles-and-renewable-electricity