Uruguay, which relies on wind and solar as much as Spain and Portugal (and which shares a language with Spain and has cultural similarities to it), should take heed of the concept of renewables as the agent causing or exacerbating the great Iberian blackout.
Iberia should just drill there for cheap oil and use that, become a major cheap oil exporter. Uruguay imports their oil, they should just drill their own cheap oil and build big refineries. They could sell cheap gasoline to California who is closing their oil refineries.
When a solar panel is added to the grid it’s waveform is generated electronically then synchronised using a process called phase locked loop. This keeps the output at the correct frequency to prevent distortion of the waveform.
Where there is a massive baseload generator the frequency is assured and maintained, the PLL will sync with it’s output and the system will be stable. Where there is no baseload generator there is nothing to physically maintain the waveform and frequency. A process called SubSynchronous Interaction takes over and introduces damaging harmonics. This can cause physical damage, and heating in transformers and cables.
This was inevitable, and will happen again.
Redding in N California 85F today ave is 76. 91F forecast Thursday. Sacramento 82F today ave is 76. 85F forecast Thursday. They were above ave most of this month, great farming weather.
I view it something like this:
“The Grid” is a finely tuned animal, it must stay in balance; the myriad components must operate as designed and within close tolerances – else, there’s a failure. Powerful, yet fragile.
Wind & solar are unreliable sources of consistent electricity. Engineers do not choose wind & solar. Politicians mandate them.
Even only 10% of an area grid’s source electricity from wind & solar is a recipe for disaster.
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Uruguay, which relies on wind and solar as much as Spain and Portugal (and which shares a language with Spain and has cultural similarities to it), should take heed of the concept of renewables as the agent causing or exacerbating the great Iberian blackout.
Iberia should just drill there for cheap oil and use that, become a major cheap oil exporter. Uruguay imports their oil, they should just drill their own cheap oil and build big refineries. They could sell cheap gasoline to California who is closing their oil refineries.
When a solar panel is added to the grid it’s waveform is generated electronically then synchronised using a process called phase locked loop. This keeps the output at the correct frequency to prevent distortion of the waveform.
Where there is a massive baseload generator the frequency is assured and maintained, the PLL will sync with it’s output and the system will be stable. Where there is no baseload generator there is nothing to physically maintain the waveform and frequency. A process called SubSynchronous Interaction takes over and introduces damaging harmonics. This can cause physical damage, and heating in transformers and cables.
This was inevitable, and will happen again.
Redding in N California 85F today ave is 76. 91F forecast Thursday. Sacramento 82F today ave is 76. 85F forecast Thursday. They were above ave most of this month, great farming weather.
I view it something like this:
“The Grid” is a finely tuned animal, it must stay in balance; the myriad components must operate as designed and within close tolerances – else, there’s a failure. Powerful, yet fragile.
Wind & solar are unreliable sources of consistent electricity. Engineers do not choose wind & solar. Politicians mandate them.
Even only 10% of an area grid’s source electricity from wind & solar is a recipe for disaster.