With a large build out of solar and wind the peak power load can be reduced because of the onsite usage of the power.
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As a result, a system using wind and solar has to be built with sufficient system capacity from conventional sources to be handle the system full load without the wind and solar systems.
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The most rigorous estimate suggests that the average annual load factor of the UK wind power system is about 27%.
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Neither solar nor wind are powerful enough to carry the heavy load that a backup generator must provide to a facility such as a hospital or a school or a county prison.
These platforms are also increasingly capable of providing ancillary services to the local utility such as spinning reserve, load-following regulation, and intermittency management for wind and solar energy.
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Google is testing a fleet of plug-in hybrids and software that would turn them into load-balancing tools for utilities flooded with variable power from wind and solar generators.
Because geothermal produces consistent, base-load power--it doesn't depend on the wind blowing or the sun shining--utilities will pay up to three times more for geothermal electricity than for electricity from an intermittent source, like wind.
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Boone Pickens has argued for years that natural gas is the best immediately available economic and environmental solution for U.S. energy needs, a bridge over oil and coal to the future when alternative solar, wind, and nuclear power will be ready to take over more of the load.
Moreover, it could do so reliably and that means wind power could be used for what is known in the jargon as base-load power supply.
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