Tag: Electric grid reliability

  • Wind and the Grid: a Precautionary Tale from the U.K.

    by James A. Bacon So, you think the rolling blackouts experienced in California were a fluke and of no relevance to Virginia? Well, then, consider what’s happening right now in the United Kingdom, where “unusually low wind output” and a series of planned power plant outages puts the nation at risk of blackouts. You see,…