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Originally posted by birdman29: ↑

But, what happens when that load factor is…zero? Because it happens.
The current poster child for the issue is Great Britain. The UK has 24 GW of wind power installed. The media loves to talk about total renewable GW installed as proof of progress, and the blindingly rapid pace of the energy transition.
However over the past few weeks wind dropped almost to zero, and output from that 24 GW of installed capacity fell to about 1 or 2 GW.
Ordinarily, that would be no problem – just fire up the gas fired power plants, or import power from elsewhere.
But what happens when that isn’t available?

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Yes interesting, B. I wrote some time ago about no wind in UK (apart from the pollies) for a week.

This says nine days and counting:

Britain Has Gone Nine Days Without Wind Power - Bloomberg
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