alt.energy.renewable

"Fran" < @ > wrote in message
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> On Oct 8, 12:46 pm, Eeyore
> wrote:

> Intermittency isn't a problem in practice because the desal plants
> don't have to operate continuously hour by hour to do their job.
>
> The reality is that the system always has spinning reserve and the
> addition of wind capacity doesn't significantly alter that need.
>
> Fran

That is true only so long as wind power is a tiny fraction of total
generation. As the amount of wind generation rises above 1-2%, so does the
need for more spinning reserve. So those that get built now don't have much
problem. But in the future....

daestrom