The underlying design principle is that there is an amount of electrical power that is in constant demand, known as baseload. At night coal fired power stations “tick over” so a base lowest level is demanded, and such stations must keep running without stopping. When demand peaks during certain times of the day, such as in the morning when people wake-up and prepare to go to work or the evening when they return home and start operating appliances or plugging in their electric cars, utilities activate "peakers" or generators that sit idle most of the time so they can meet dynamic demand during these peak cycles. Managing these ever-changing loads is required to balance the utility's system, and peak cycles have always been difficult for utilities.
Coal fired power plants never lay idle because you want to keep them operating at their peak performance.
All decisions now moving forward are critical, as we are at that point, an irreversible process from here on. It’s going to be tough indeed, as the decision makers have a huge responsibility.
We can’t stop global trends, and we can’t stop solar PV becoming cheaper than carbon by 2025, as energy storage gets cheaper, and more sophisticated( blockchain).
Consumers and business become empowered, and we can’t stop that either. The demand for central commercial electricity generation will fall dramatically by year 2030.
Baseload by coal fired generators in our historical grid, now have many renewable power plants generating electricity from wind farms, solar PV farms, hydro, biomass, and numerous other smaller plants.
Pumped hydro has several thousand locations alone known today, where large volumes of water are raised by renewable power, then generated when needed. Biomass is another good generator using waste biomass, large batteries planned, more wind farms and solar PV farms.
Baseload power as above can be re-defined by year 2025, as these new planned systems come online, and BlockChain technology can manage even households and businesses as well, to satisfy baseload at night, along with peaks during the day. The whole system will change slowly and safely.
Energy storage beyong lithium batteries with hydrogen batteries, is as well worth mentioning separately.
Baseload by coal fired generators in our historical grid, now have many renewable power plants generating electricity from wind farms, solar PV farms, hydro, biomass, and numerous other smaller plants.
Pumped hydro has several thousand locations alone known today, where large volumes of water are raised by renewable power, then generated when needed. Biomass is another good generator using waste biomass, large batteries planned, more wind farms and solar PV farms.
Baseload power as above can be re-defined by year 2025, as these new planned systems come online, and BlockChain technology can manage even households and businesses as well, to satisfy baseload at night, along with peaks during the day. The whole system will change slowly and safely.
Energy storage beyong lithium batteries with hydrogen batteries, is as well worth mentioning separately.
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