• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    What does this mean? The 100% all for Denmark and they could now sell the 40% to other countries? That is fantastic! (Have rates come down at all for the citizenry?).

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      16 days ago

      It was one peak moment during a time of low usage at night with simultaneous strong winds. Assuming this is about the July 2015 moment (which CleanTechnica seems to be hiding — or even completely ignorant of).

      So yes those 40% surplus were automatically exported (the European power market is integrated), but no that didn’t move the needle on consumer prices.

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          9 days ago

          I’m still wondering what you might have meant by this.

          If you produce 40% over current usage you have to get rid of that 40% immediately. For a small country with no appreciable amount of pump storage they could quickly spin up this must mean mostly by export. Otherwise the frequency rises sharply above the 50 Hz such that substations start dropping like flies.

          In other words it seems obvious to me that the grid needs it.

        • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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          16 days ago

          Old and outdated story. I was there too when it started. Collapseniks missed the point that doing nothing will make nothing better.

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            15 days ago

            It’s basic biophysics. And it will happen anyway naturally, just over a longer period. Way less excess mortality.