http://www.claverton-energy.com/article-in-iet-queries-role-of-wind-power-and-balancing-costs-in-the-uk.html Elite Energy, Environment & Tranporation Experts Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:20:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.claverton-energy.com/article-in-iet-queries-role-of-wind-power-and-balancing-costs-in-the-uk.html/comment-page-1#comment-786 dave elliott Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:53:39 +0000 http://www.claverton-energy.com/?p=3144#comment-786 A rather weak effort I thought. No mention of the Earthscan book which looked at all this is detail, or of the UKERC report, which looked at dozens of studies. The debate ( e.g. in CEG) has in any case moved on- now we are discussing whether wind or nuclear will have to be curtailed during low demand periods, if we have large amounts of both on the gird ; and whether a supergird can provide effective balancing across the EU. Storage may eventually provide part of an answer, but back up using biomass is far easier, as the University of Kassel Combined Power system study suggested. All this gets discussed (ad nauseam!) in Renew-http://eeru.open.ac.uk/renew_online.htm A rather weak effort I thought. No mention of the Earthscan book which looked at all this is detail, or of the UKERC report, which looked at dozens of studies. The debate ( e.g. in CEG) has in any case moved on- now we are discussing whether wind or nuclear will have to be curtailed during low demand periods, if we have large amounts of both on the gird ; and whether a supergird can provide effective balancing across the EU. Storage may eventually provide part of an answer, but back up using biomass is far easier, as the University of Kassel Combined Power system study suggested. All this gets discussed (ad nauseam!) in Renew-http://eeru.open.ac.uk/renew_online.htm

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