Category Archives: Seasonal

Wind and Solar diurnal and seasonal variations require energy storage

Posted on June 4, 2015 by

Preface. Currently energy storage is accomplished with the 67% of fossil fuels (natural gas and coal) used to generate electricity, especially natural gas which can kick in within microseconds to make up for failing wind, or run all the time … Continue reading →

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Wind’s dirty secret: it goes on vacation in the summer and year-round in the South East

Posted on February 26, 2015 by

  Figure 1. Summer wind across the USA is barely to not economically viable Class 3 (light blue), or not at all economically viable Class 2 (orange) and class 1 (blank) (NREL), with very limited darker blue (class 4) and … Continue reading →

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