A Renewable Energy network consists of many parts, and this diagram gives a short overview over what the individual parts can do well, and what they cannot do.
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A Renewable Energy network consists of many parts, and this diagram gives a short overview over what the individual parts can do well, and what they cannot do.
Thoughts, comments, likes?
I think you’re reading into it correctly. It’s an inaccurate depiction. The hydro line is what makes it fuzzy. A dam is a source but has no storage. A reservoir is not a source but has storage. They are separate devices meaning this needs two separate lines for hydro.
I imagine biomass is exactly the same situation, but I have no idea what OP is trying to use. Maybe I’m just uneducated, but it doesn’t sound like common knowledge. Still my assumption would be that there’s a source system to grow/maintain biomass and a separate system to extract that energy.
If those two items stayed as-is, then I can strap a battery directly to wind or solar and give them green check marks in both categories.
My idea is that most Hydro-Power plants can be used as reservoirs with little modification.
And biomass can be burned at whatever moment you like (provided you have the plants to do so), so it is “on-demand power” in some sense.