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A key prerequisite for a 100% renewable energy future
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My personal experience with "power management programs".
There was an incentive program offered to me when we had out solar rig installed. Hey! Sell your BATTERY power back to the grid and MAKE MONEY! And we signed up for it. About a month after we got online, it began when, around 9PM in the evening, our inverter was reset to ship our stored power out to the local POCO, draining our batteries down to the minimum power threshold (20%), and leaving our home to pull GRID power until the arrays came online after dawn. Okay, one night was fine. Then they did it the next night. Again, by Midnight, we were needing to pull power from the GRID. I looked at the fine print. Said "No more than 3 times a week". I buckled down and said "Okay". Then it happened the next night, and the night after that and the night after that. During that last night, we had some REALLY bad storms come through the region. I had nothing in the battery tank to support the house if there was an outage. Then I read the even finer print, "There no recourse; no negotiating for [days, % of power, etc.]. The only option was to withdraw from the program". I did, and I never looked back.
I calculated how much MONEY I lost because of the power we needed to pull from the grid to support the house, and it was astonishing. There would not have been any benefit add to ME to remain in the program.
So - read the fine and finer print before you sign up for a "power management program".
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A key prerequisite for a 100% renewable energy future
In many countries, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power are now the cheapest and fastest-growing ways to produce electricity. Renewable energy sources are also the most sustainable option – solar panels and wind turbines produce no local emissions or pollutants.
However, we live in a 24/7 world where we want to have electricity all the time, and renewable energy sources are inherently intermittent. They don’t produce a continuous stream of energy round-the-clock because the sun sets every evening and there are calm, windless days.
This is why we need energy storage systems. They allow us to store renewable energy when it is readily available – when the sun shines and the wind blows. Energy storage is a critical component to the adoption and advancement of renewable energy sources around the world.
Balancing power demand The ability to deliver power when it is needed. TAICO has a range of solutions optimized for balancing renewable generation, such as engine power plants powered by sustainable fuels that can quickly start and stop generation, and our energy management software platform GEMS, our website taicopower.com.
People sometimes confuse balancing with flexibility. This is understandable, as they are interconnected.
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