What happens in Germany if March 20, 2015, is a sunny day?

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thankyouOB said:
but there was no there there; as in there was no problem to fix.
it never materialized. it is not as if all those plans to fix the problem were needed. they just went away.
That's actually not quite true.. At least for business/gov sector.
There were numerous things that needed fixing, and some things didn't make it.
There were bad results when 2000 actually hit..
I saw mostly billing issues and other things like that.. A LOT of the older systems used 2 character year fields.
And it would have been much worse had the work not happened.
It wasn't any major disaster, but it wasn't nothing either.. ;-)

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I'm glad they got a sunny day, and got to put their planning to work. There are many disasters whose timing you can predict. And I'm glad it turned out OK.
 
RegGuheert said:
Finally, I ran across a cool animation that ties the eclipse to the shadow to the PV production:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G8e9bDypSo[/youtube]

somehow that URL didn't show in your post but when I replied it was there. Not sure if it is my browser or the forum software but I'm replying in case others didn't see it.

edit, it doesn't show in my quoted reply either so http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G8e9bDypSo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

apparently that [youtube] tag isn't valid
 
RegGuheert said:
Germany came through with flying colors, even though over 2/3 (3/4?) of the country was unobscured by clouds during the eclipse!
Of course they did. We already know that grid stability increases with each addition of renewables, and that Europe's got this under control. ;)

One indisputable piece of evidence on behalf of this new model: Power outages in Germany have decreased (to 15.3 minutes in 2013) as the renewable content of its power supply has increased since 2006; in all of Europe, only Denmark (which has higher renewable content than Germany in its power supply) and Luxembourg have higher supply security.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/germany-renewableenergyclimatechange.html
http://www.derwesten.de/wirtschaft/zahl-der-stromausfaelle-ging-zurueck-aimp-id9734230.html
Posted here in Oct 2014:
http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=392704#p392704
 
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