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Interesting story on the challenges of deployment of renewable energy

Interesting story on the challenges of deployment of renewable energy Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California (source: flickr/ jeffgunn, creative commons)
Francisco Rojas 26 Mar 2015

LA Times: "Geothermal energy is alone among the renewable energy sources that has “dispatchablity” -- the means to quickly ramp up power delivery during peak hours or scale back when the grid has excess."

Renewable energy development has enough obstacles as it is at the moment. In a recent article in the LA Times, having the capacity of using green energy when needed could boost the growth of renewables, but “energy storage” is still on its infacy, at least for large scale projects and general use.

The LA Times states that “renewable energy can be difficult to manage because it is intermittent, and no one can control when the sun shines or the wind blows. Sometimes California ends up generating more energy than needed at any given time, and power plants need to be shut down. And it’s tricky to hold onto electricity until it’s needed.”

As we have pointed out before, geothermal is a baseload energy source that can bypass the “intermittent” nature of solar, wind or hydro; allowing for faster renewable development and lessening the need to rely on carbon based or non renewable technologies. The same source states that: “Geothermal energy is alone among the renewable energy sources that has “dispatchablity” — the means to quickly ramp up power delivery during peak hours or scale back when the grid has excess.”

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Source: LA Times