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In reply to the discussion: Intermittency Of Renewables?… Not So Much [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)18. Wow, you really got me.
Since I'm dealing with someone having no better arguments than falsehoods and trying to find 'gotchas' I guess I should have taken the time to write out "reactive power management" or "reactive power support".
I would have thought that anyone with the credentials you claim and who actually understands the potential role of battery energy storage to the distribution system would consider that verbiage unnecessary since the context was the ability of batteries to sell into a needed but as yet undeveloped "reactive power management" market for the distribution network much as there is an Ancillary Services market for transmission.
I didn't realize your limitations and shortcomings were so profound. My apologies.
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Why are you arguing about a theoretical problem that could only possibly occur
BlueStreak
Jul 2013
#16
"no compelling reason ever to build (or extend) any nuclear or coal plant -- ever"
kristopher
Jul 2013
#44
The economics of storage systems get better as we shift to intermittent sources
BlueStreak
Jul 2013
#65
That 300% is a nonsense number, for a case that will never exist in the real world
BlueStreak
Jul 2013
#29