How Risks Due to Clean Energy Intermittency Can Be Mitigated
Intermittency is one of the key challenges governments will have to overcome as they build modern energy systems that are fully reliant on renewable energy. While fossil fuel-fired power plants generate energy at any time of the day or night, clean energy is dependent on the time and weather conditions. This is clean energy intermittency. A solar energy plant has zero output at night and its capacity may be limited during the day due to cloudy or overcast conditions. Renewables can produce energy in abundance but their intermittency can inject a lot of volatility into green energy prices, especially if…