tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post5574148936701879015..comments2024-03-20T05:46:39.773+00:00Comments on Irish Energy Blog: Rising Costs of Stabilizing Irish Grid Irish Energy http://www.blogger.com/profile/16354100971015557625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6298568350190982130.post-79731516866094160892016-06-16T22:44:42.063+01:002016-06-16T22:44:42.063+01:00The national electricity grid under ESB stewardshi...The national electricity grid under ESB stewardship had an excellent record of stable, predictable behaviour over many decades of service. Ireland does not have a history of instability, brownouts or blackouts, and in this age of ever more advanced technology, it is difficult to see how the Department of Energy can countenance deployment of flaky generation equipment that has the potential to compromise the security and economy of supply that is essential to modern life, industry and commerce.<br />This can be easily corrected by requiring that all potential generation suppliers present a stable and continuous interface to the grid, as was the case in the past, rather than attempting to "bolt on" corrective equipment at locations that are remote from the source of the instability.<br />The price of intermittent renewable energy generation must include any storage capacity and reactive power correction at the point of supply. This may include the much vaunted battery storage, dynamo energy storage, synchronous compensation and any other of the number of techniques that we are constantly assured will be able to facilitate the decarbonisation of Irish electricity generation.<br />Anything less is simply ideological denial and political vandalism of the most venal kind.<br /><br /><br />Nigel de Haashttp://www.westcorkwind.comnoreply@blogger.com