Financial Times: Report into last year’s catastrophic outage says the problem did not lie with solar and wind power ENTSO-E, a group of grid operators, said the “whole of Europe” needed to modernis…
The content of the report seems to contradict the title:
“The report described a series of voltage fluctuations that led to widespread disconnections of power generation in Spain, particularly among converter-based systems commonly used in renewable energy.”
So renewable inverter based generation is at least partiality at fault?
As someone who works in the renewable industry, it became common knowledge shortly after this event that grid-following inverters exaccerbated the voltage fluctuations that led to this outage.
As someone in the renewables industry, you should know that literally 100% of all renewables problems ever are caused by their intermittency. Were you late to work? It’s because the sun doesn’t shine at nighttime. If you say “the blackout was caused by renewables”, Joe Q Public will assume you’re referring to intermittency.
Distinguishing between “renewables” and whether the inverters were grid-forming or not, is a useful distinction, even if it hurts anyone who’s read a dictionary.
The content of the report seems to contradict the title:
“The report described a series of voltage fluctuations that led to widespread disconnections of power generation in Spain, particularly among converter-based systems commonly used in renewable energy.”
So renewable inverter based generation is at least partiality at fault?
As someone who works in the renewable industry, it became common knowledge shortly after this event that grid-following inverters exaccerbated the voltage fluctuations that led to this outage.
As someone in the renewables industry, you should know that literally 100% of all renewables problems ever are caused by their intermittency. Were you late to work? It’s because the sun doesn’t shine at nighttime. If you say “the blackout was caused by renewables”, Joe Q Public will assume you’re referring to intermittency.
Distinguishing between “renewables” and whether the inverters were grid-forming or not, is a useful distinction, even if it hurts anyone who’s read a dictionary.