India threatens Wind farms with fines;
The intermittent power of wind towers plays havoc with electricity grids. Power black outs in India are so bad, they cut off the supply to 600 million or so people for two days last year. To make the grid more stable, an official somewhere decided it would help to have at least one day’s warning of how much electricity will flow from those towers. (Why not two days I say?)
“A directive took effect this week ordering wind farms with a capacity of 10 megawatts or more to forecast their generation in 15-minute blocks for the following day. ”
To put some perspective on this, here is what 7000 wind turbines across Northern Europe (between the North sea, the Baltic Sea and the Austrian-Swiss border) produced in 2004.
h/t pkuster
Oh, schadenfreude.
What India needs is more damned power plants. Actual power plants.
Forecasting shouldn’t be a problem.
The diesel powered generators running in the janitor’s closets will continue to ensure the feed in of power to facilitate the ongoing outflow of taxpayer dollars.
Here’s the full article in Bloombergs.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-15/india-tells-wind-farms-to-forecast-power-or-face-fines.html
There is simply no possibility of a wind farm meeting this requirement.
Surely there is a country looking right at these wind monstrosities and thinking: “there is no way I’m putting any of these things up”. There must be. How stupid is this planet?
Well I am very happy to say that at least here in Saskatchewan where common sense and logic rule the day there are no ridiculous wind farms and no plans for any………..what?? Uh, okay, never mind.
How stupid is this planet?Posted by: Osumashi Kinyobe
The planet isn’t stupid, the overpopulating humans are.
We’ve known how to avoid the problem since the 70s, but nobody will do anything about it.
How stupid is this planet? Dumb as a rock!