Book contents
- No Miracles Needed
- Reviews
- No Miracles Needed
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 What Problems Are We Trying to Solve?
- 2 WWS Solutions for Electricity Generation
- 3 WWS Solutions for Electricity Storage
- 4 WWS Solutions for Transportation
- 5 WWS Solutions for Buildings
- 6 WWS Solutions for Industry
- 7 Solutions for Nonenergy Emissions
- 8 What Doesn’t Work
- 9 Electricity Grids
- 10 Photovoltaics and Solar Radiation
- 11 Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy
- 12 Steps in Developing 100 Percent WWS Roadmaps
- 13 Keeping the Grid Stable with 100 Percent WWS
- 14 Timeline and Policies Needed to Transition
- 15 My Journey
- References
- Index
13 - Keeping the Grid Stable with 100 Percent WWS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2023
- No Miracles Needed
- Reviews
- No Miracles Needed
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 What Problems Are We Trying to Solve?
- 2 WWS Solutions for Electricity Generation
- 3 WWS Solutions for Electricity Storage
- 4 WWS Solutions for Transportation
- 5 WWS Solutions for Buildings
- 6 WWS Solutions for Industry
- 7 Solutions for Nonenergy Emissions
- 8 What Doesn’t Work
- 9 Electricity Grids
- 10 Photovoltaics and Solar Radiation
- 11 Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy
- 12 Steps in Developing 100 Percent WWS Roadmaps
- 13 Keeping the Grid Stable with 100 Percent WWS
- 14 Timeline and Policies Needed to Transition
- 15 My Journey
- References
- Index
Summary
One of the greatest concerns facing the implementation of a worldwide 100 percent clean, renewable energy and storage system is whether electricity, heat, cold, and hydrogen will be available when they are needed. In other words, can a 100 percent WWS grid avoid blackouts? Thus, the main challenge in a future grid will be to match electricity, heat, cold, and hydrogen demand with 100 percent WWS electricity and heat supply plus storage while using demand response. This chapter discussed meeting such demand both on the short timescale (seconds to minutes) and long times scale (months to seasons to years).
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- No Miracles NeededHow Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air, pp. 279 - 317Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023