August 6, 2019
The importance of flexibility As the power system continues to evolve, with wind and solar generation playing an ever-greater role, we hear more and more about the importance of increasing its flexibility. The IEA considers flexibility a global priority, and addressed its May, 2019 report on the status of the power system on policy and technological advances that further enable a flexible system. Flexibility in this sense includes both being able to temporally shift generation – or, increasingly, demand – to when it is most valuable, and also to respond and change output (or consumption) levels quickly to respond to frequency deviations or short-term net load fluctuations. New technologies and approaches…
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