Thank you for the presentation and I found it quite educational. I am new to the Supergen Energy channel and I will have to look at your other videos. Please allow me to make one observation. Basically what you are saying is that given the proper conditions a little old lady by flipping a light switch can crash the whole network. I come into this from the renewable energy side. I am sure you are aware of the increasing amount of solar and batteries being added. I think your mistake is trying to perpetuate a fragile centralized system. Really, all that power generation -large and small- should be doing is charging batteries. Large power plants will become obsolete due to decentralized production. Let the batteries handle the load. Thanks again.
Hi Chris, thanks for watching! I was not at all saying that, though. A potentially dangerous frequency excursion will only happen if there is a large power imbalance, such as a nuclear power plant tripping. Regarding batteries, they are indeed part of the solution for managing frequency in a decarbonized grid. Renewables are not to blame for frequency instability, we have in fact studied 'who should pay for stability'. More details here: raw.githubusercontent.com/badber/Miscellany/master/How_to_distribute_cost_of_grid_stability.pdf
Fantastic video, very well explained. Thank you!
Thank you for the presentation and I found it quite educational. I am new to the Supergen Energy channel and I will have to look at your other videos. Please allow me to make one observation. Basically what you are saying is that given the proper conditions a little old lady by flipping a light switch can crash the whole network. I come into this from the renewable energy side. I am sure you are aware of the increasing amount of solar and batteries being added. I think your mistake is trying to perpetuate a fragile centralized system. Really, all that power generation -large and small- should be doing is charging batteries. Large power plants will become obsolete due to decentralized production. Let the batteries handle the load. Thanks again.
Hi Chris, thanks for watching!
I was not at all saying that, though. A potentially dangerous frequency excursion will only happen if there is a large power imbalance, such as a nuclear power plant tripping. Regarding batteries, they are indeed part of the solution for managing frequency in a decarbonized grid.
Renewables are not to blame for frequency instability, we have in fact studied 'who should pay for stability'. More details here: raw.githubusercontent.com/badber/Miscellany/master/How_to_distribute_cost_of_grid_stability.pdf