Actually you leave the plants running even when the wind blows. There is not enough time to start from shut down to generation if a brown out occurs.
“Actually you leave the plants running even when the wind blows. There is not enough time to start from shut down to generation if a brown out occurs.”
And that’s the cruelest joke of all. You have to maintain baseline power regardless of the renewable potential so whatever they do generate is superfluous.
And, as they found in Germany and Denmark, pollution actually increased because of the need to inefficiently keep the spinning reserves operating. Plants pollute more when they operate at low rates.