Wind Producers Getting Paid to not Produce

[Yo_Mama]

5. If you don't have storage isn't this inevitable?

Power curves on wind turbines are such that a very substantial amount of total power gets produced in much less than half the operational annual time.

If you can't store that power, eventually you have to stop accepting it at high periods. There's a high rate of correlation in high wind periods.

As the number of wind turbines feeding into any grid grows, the times when there will be an unavoidable surplus of power expand. That leads to less net average acceptance, and makes the economics unworkable for those who have built the turbines.