This is what's REALLY holding back wind and solar
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Building solar farms and wind parks is one thing. Plugging them into the grid is another. How does our power system need to change to cope with more renewables?
Credits:
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer
We’re destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn’t need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we’ll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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Read More:
Integrating Renewable Energy Resources into the Grid:
https://www.rff.org/publications/explainers/renewables-101-integrating-renewables/
Energy Transitions Commissions report:
https://www.energy-transitions.org/publications/financing-the-transition-etc/
Where wind power is harnessed (U.S.):
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/wind/where-wind-power-is-harnessed.php#:~:text=Favorable%20sites%20include%20the%20tops,high%20as%20900%20feet%20tall.
Report on Grid-Scale Storage:
https://www.iea.org/reports/grid-scale-storage
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:13 How the grid works
02:43 More renewables, more problems
05:37 How the grid was built
07:00 What needs to happen
10:47 Conclusion