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Electricity From Wind Turbines is Bad for the Grid

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Large scale wind projects decrease stability of the electric grid

Large scale wind projects decrease stability of the electric grid

If you’re a technical person, you’ll find this interesting. Wind energy advocates, while admitting wind energy is intermittent with wide and often rapid variations, assumed the presence of many turbines in a large scale wind project would average the ups and downs and transform it into smooth power to the grid, unfortunately, a new study just out shows wind power does exactly the opposite of what they believed. The turbulence of the wind and the instability of the energy produced is amplified in large scale projects, decreasing the stability of the electric grid.

… the intermittent properties of wind persist on the scale of an entire wind farm, and that wind turbines do not only transfer wind intermittency to the grid, but also increase it.

What does this mean to you? The study was done by a group in favor of wind energy, the ForWindCenter for Wind Energy Research at the University of Oldenburg in Germany, so even wind advocates have to acknowledge the wind turbines are not a good thing for the stable electric power we all need.

Link: Physical Review Letters via PhysOrg

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Comments

  1. Which is why large scale projects have cap banks installed in order to even the power out.

  3. I feel turbines are still in developmental stages as far as a stable source of energy, research has found you can convert wind and solar energy into hydrogen which can be used to store energy and is an energy source itself, but it is only in developmental stages.

    In June 2010, for example, a violent storm in the Northwest caused a simultaneous surge in wind power and in traditional hydropower, creating an oversupply that threatened to overwhelm the grid and cause a blackout.

    This power source is unreliable and we need to wait for technology to catch up with the science, so that we all can benefit from a cleaner more efficient energy source.