Comment by tick_tock_tick
1 year ago
It's not a "trick" just an acknowledgment that overbuilding wind/solar generation capacity does nothing but waste money and fail to significantly improve outcomes.
1 year ago
It's not a "trick" just an acknowledgment that overbuilding wind/solar generation capacity does nothing but waste money and fail to significantly improve outcomes.
You're utterly wrong there. The optimum, cost minimizing solution can involved overprovisioning of renewables.
Indeed, we already see this internally in PV installations. It's best to overprovision the modules beyond what the inverters can handle and just clip some of their output at times of peak insolation. That's because inverters that could handle the peak would hardly ever operate at top power and could be downsized without losing much overall output.