(08-09-2022, 11:27 PM)p_rushing Wrote:

(08-09-2022, 11:25 AM)mikesez Wrote: 100% renewables can work with energy storage.  The island of El Hierro has done it.  It didn't work in India because the poverty and corruption probably led to them cutting corners.

Go read about it. All your liberal leaders, charities, and companies went all out to create this thing and it failed. They stopped talking about it and the MSM never followed up. It wasn't done by India and didn't fail because of corruption. The legacy power was terrible and people still preferred that.

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The Dhnarai project failed because of high prices associated with solar power and the grid’s unreliability. Villagers were warned not to use high power appliances like televisions and refrigerators. When solar projects like that in Dharnai are initiated, the developers do not mention how sustainable the energy is, its longevity and what happens when the technologies age or how much of the demand the project could meet. When Dharnai was connected to the region’s coal-powered grid in 2016, villagers had access to a much cheaper and more reliable power source that allowed them to use high-powered appliances. The Dharnai experience should be a warning to others. While developed countries may have the expertise to keep the system operational, the cost in Dharnai was 3 times that of reliable coal power.

They didn't install enough panels and batteries to give the kVA that the villagers were used to getting from their generators, then, they didn't maintain the little equipment they did have properly.  These are consequences of poverty.  
In an area that already has a backbone of expertise and electrical infrastructure and generation, utility level solar panels make a lot of sense. In an area that doesn't have these things yet, well, they have to crawl before they walk. Sometimes developing areas can skip ahead in their development.  Sometimes they can't.  El Hierro had a diesel plant for decades while they built their renewable infrastructure. 
The point remains that a developed country like ours should be building out renewables to the greatest extent possible so we can not only produce more energy but also have more fossil fuel to sell to these developing economies that aren't fully ready for renewables.

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