Power outage in SpainThe way the power grid is operated is reminiscent of lumberjacks in earlier centuries: the daredevil men who slid downhill with their sledges loaded with 2 tons of wood.After all these years of criticism of the madness of expanding renewable energy without storage, how could the title of my newsletter today have been any different? The way the power grid is operated is reminiscent of lumberjacks in earlier centuries: the daredevil men who slid downhill with their sledges loaded with 2 tons of wood. What does 80 kg of man do when 2 tons of sledge with wood gets out of control? That was full risk for the energy supply with firewood. Here is an article about transporting wood with sledges.
Here is my article from March 2008. Minor corrections are necessary in the interpretation, but essentially exactly the same requirements today as in 2008. I researched this topic for years by searching for "needs-based grid feed-in". Until around 2020, my articles dominated the first page of search results. How could such an important topic be so neglected?
I was at an exhibition in Salzburg in 2019 at the stand of an electricity storage provider. "When the storage system is full at 11:00, it will be fed into the grid" was the deeply shocking statement from a salesman. The exact opposite of a demand-oriented grid feed-in. If everyone did that? The power grid would collapse! October 2024 I heard exactly the same nonsense at the ENLIT trade fair in Milan. With prices per kWh, an industry that only thinks of itself, how to rip off customers, that lacks any approach to the common good.
On January 8, 2021, I spoke to Herbert Saurugg - international blackout and crisis preparedness expert for the first time. It was about future-proofing the inverters for the GEMINI next generation house. Inverters may only feed into the grid if the grid is available. The grid could be switched off because a service technician is at work. Do protocols exist or are protocols in preparation so that individual cells, i.e. everything connected to a single medium-voltage transformer, can be powered up in the event of a grid failure? The idea is that there are enough photovoltaics and batteries in the supply area of a medium-voltage transformer for such an operation. At the site in Unken, 5 GEMINI next generation houses with around 200 kW of photovoltaics and 600 kWh of batteries would be planned. There is a 240 kVA transformer on the north-western boundary of the property. In the event of a blackout like the one in Spain, the 5 GEMINI houses could have taken over the supply to a limited extent because only 5 x 20 kW grid connections are planned. But this requires protocols on how and under what circumstances a blackout of a supply area can occur. Inverters must have this protocol implemented. In other words, never feed into a de-energized grid unless the conditions precisely defined in the protocol for "black start of a medium-voltage transformer supply area" occur. In this case, the medium-voltage transformer would have to be disconnected from the medium-voltage grid. When the general power grid starts up again, this island must then be synchronized with the rest of the grid. Of course, I called Mr. Saurugg and other experts again after the blackout in Spain: It's 4 years later and still no protocol for the black start of the power grid with decentralized electricity storage has been developed or at least planning for it has been started.
"Rare atmospheric conditions" was the first nonsense statement about the power outage. Why did the woodcutter have a fatal accident with his sledge? A rare case of black ice, causing him to be crushed between a wall and the wood behind him on the sled. Instead of nonsensical attempts at appeasement, comprehensive planning is needed on how to avoid such blackouts in the future. 3 million GEMINI next generation homes could start the entire German power grid, but only if there is a protocol for this process and the inverters for the grid connection are equipped with it in all GEMINI homes. Similarly, 6 million electric cars with 11 kW connections could start the entire German power grid, but only on the condition that a protocol for this process exists and is implemented in these cars. How about a registration requirement from 2035 "The car must be Power to Grid capable and master the power grid black start protocol".
The fans of renewable energy must finally realize that they cannot continue to pester the rest of the population with unbearable arrogance and incompetence. Clear answers to this disaster are required. Otherwise I will have to call these fans of renewable energy the worst enemies of renewable energy.
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