Intermittency is what happens when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, and another dependable source of electricity is required to make up the difference between electricity demand ...

The intermittency problem is not just about changes in the weather. It’s also a cyclical pattern. Natural gas, coal, and nuclear can be adjusted to match consumption patterns.

Wind and solar power are now cost-competitive with fossil fuels in some places, but that may change as the amount of renewable energy on the grid goes up, due to required network integration and ...

Renewable Energy: Intermittency Has Consequences Panels at a solar power facility in Nakai, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 2016.(Issei Kato/Reuters) By Andrew Stuttaford About Andrew Stuttaford ...

Intermittency and storage One of the annoying arguments against solar and wind power is "intermittency" -- the fact that the sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't always blow.

A while back I raised the problem of intermittency — the fact that solar and wind power depend on the sun shining and the wind blowing, neither of which happens continuously — and asked if ...

What Intermittency Means for the Grid Let’s get one thing clear at the outset: Renewable intermittency is a real issue and a real challenge, at least if you listen to the people who oversee the ...

As for intermittency, I just mentioned batteries. You can generate more energy than you’re using when the sun is out or the wind is blowing, and use the stored excess energy when it isn’t.

Managing variability is not new Variability is not a new issue in the power industry since traditional power sources have some variability, and demand is also variable over all timeframes. The ...

Unfortunately, this ignores two essential aspects of the Energiewende that explain how Germany solved the intermittency problem until now. First, the problem of generating electricity on cloudy and ...