Inverters work by following what the grid is doing. . . . These inverters are “grid following” i.e. they cannot create the current and voltage wave.
To be honest, I'm against solar and/or wind for the grid. But for reasons not related to this.
Why do I disagree with this particular argument? Because my home solar inverters can work in off grid mode (when the grid goes down) and produce AC current for my home even with no grid to sync up to. One would think this can be achieved by grid-level inverters as well. The power in my area doesn't go down often, and when it does it's not down long. However, the power in my home hasn't gone off at all since I installed solar -- because my inverters keep producing AC power (as long as I have incoming solar and/or battery power).
I think the problem is that the author says that no “Grid-Level inverter synchronizers” currently exist to power a grid when there is no existing grid to follow.
They are called “grid forming inverters” that would connect to the grid synchronizer.
I think synchronizing the tens of thousands of inverters is the issue.And storage is THE problem with so-called free energy.
Solar panels and small! wind powered generators , and in my location a small water-driven generator COULD provide economical electric for appliance. But not heating and transportation. Storage batteries are expensive in the large capacity needed.
However, the power in my home hasn’t gone off at all since I installed solar — because my inverters keep producing AC power (as long as I have incoming solar and/or battery power).
So a person whose career was carefully bringing the grid back up after outages told me.
“Why do I disagree with this particular argument? Because my home solar inverters can work in off grid mode (when the grid goes down) and produce AC current for my home even with no grid to sync up to. “
Yeah, I don’t get that either. My solar uses micro inverters - one for each panel, so why couldn’t a grid level solar installation do the same?