Talk:Grid balancing
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Constraint payments
[edit]Constraint payments are made to other electricity suppliers as well as wind. In 2011/2012 they totaled £324 million of which £31 million went to wind. In 2012/2013 thanks to improved transmission capability payments were £130 million of which only £7 million were for wind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.164.12.101 (talk) 21:07, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
VRE Sources
[edit]The task of balancing the grid indeed got harder with proliferation variable renewable energy sources, but the current text is very dated. I have added some implication for very quick response, but the following topics need to be covered:
- fast ramp-up is required to compensate for an unpredicted rapid drop of wind power (rare, but very real event);
- modern wind and even PV sources can participate in balancing;
- the low marginal cost of VRE tends to cause closing of the baseload power plants with their rotating machinery.