It's a page two type story that won't get discussed much, but this morning....in Germany, some discussion came up over electrical issues left over from June.
Four of the big grid operators basically had to go out a couple of times in June, and get power from beyond the border of Germany. Basically, consumption out-performed production (this was a hot period for most of Germany). So these two periods (6-12 June and 25 June)....required extra power that the grid could not produce.
Behind all of this, came two essential questions.
First, will there be added cost from the 'friends' of Germany handing the bill to the grid folks? Well....yes. No one is talking over the amount, but you can expect this to be a bit more than usual. It'll likely be spread out over the electrical-year, but my guess is that it'll be in the range of 3-to-8 percent more. If this were to occur again in August (July does not appear to be a heat-wave month)? Then you could add another couple of percent onto the bill.
Second, what does this say about dependability of solar and wind? Well, the experts admit....you can't predict or store their contributions. Recyclable energy is at a all-time record in Germany at present. But you'd have to add a lot more.....to be able to handle these months like June.
Something to worry about? Today? No. Once the nuke plants are shut down, and the coal plants dissolved....then you can worry weekly about this in Germany, and the increase of use of French or Polish electricity on the German grid. But that's ten years away, and Germans are rich anyway.
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Or they'll just do what South Australia did and incorporate a massive battery bank that reduced their outages. But that'd take a progressive government to do it, which we haven't had for a long time in Germany.
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