Electrical outages. cyber attacks ?

It seems to me that a lot of people are looking for ways to patch up a system which is fundamentally flawed in its expectations. If one wants power from wind then surely the wind provider must arrange that it is compatible with the rest of the grid? If this means that he must provide a big battery, or standby generation or anything else as his power is not constant with a reasonable time consistancy, he must take that as part of the cost of providing his power source. The idea that someone else pays for his failure to provide a contracted power level, and that he may change it on a cycle by cycle basis is ridiculous in the extreme. Clearly the contracts for wind were written by people who were more interested in virtue signalling (look how much renewables we have...) rather than a solid engineering proposition which we then require friom everyone else! The result is that we now have an unreliable power system which is disasterous for the economy. As for trains which cannot be started by the driver, the world is now even madder than I thought! Austrailia and the Germans are not too happy with theirs either, but problems are little reported because it damages the virtue cause. Spinning reserve is now tiny because no one will pay for it, and it is constantly critisised because it is using fossil fuel. The need for reserve is greater than ever because of renewables which cannot be faulted whatever havoc they cause. Wonderful.

It seems to me that a lot of people are looking for ways to patch up a system which is fundamentally flawed in its expectations. If one wants power from wind then surely the wind provider must arrange that it is compatible with the rest of the grid? If this means that he must provide a big battery, or standby generation or anything else as his power is not constant with a reasonable time consistancy, he must take that as part of the cost of providing his power source. The idea that someone else pays for his failure to provide a contracted power level, and that he may change it on a cycle by cycle basis is ridiculous in the extreme. Clearly the contracts for wind were written by people who were more interested in virtue signalling (look how much renewables we have...) rather than a solid engineering proposition which we then require friom everyone else! The result is that we now have an unreliable power system which is disasterous for the economy. As for trains which cannot be started by the driver, the world is now even madder than I thought! Austrailia and the Germans are not too happy with theirs either, but problems are little reported because it damages the virtue cause. Spinning reserve is now tiny because no one will pay for it, and it is constantly critisised because it is using fossil fuel. The need for reserve is greater than ever because of renewables which cannot be faulted whatever havoc they cause. Wonderful.