Of course a 1960's design isn't adapted to current weather conditions. That doesn't mean the whole technology is useless, like so many commenters imply.
Any new build can and will include cooling adapted to hotter conditions.
Any new build can and will include cooling adapted to hotter conditions.
Starting this year, in Romania you cannot put new PV capacity online without the storage for it, is mandatory. Possibly for existing ones, but I am not sure.
You either have to significantly oversize the PV (easier said than done, when its energy density is already not that high per m2), or have enough batteries to last for multiple days of full load. If you do the maths that’s a lot of batteries
The main idea is to then import power from somewhere sunny and/or windy or mountainous, using money you saved when they had the rain and you had the sun.
Batteries and other storage mechanisms will gradually reduce the need for doing so, but aiming to entirely eliminate all need for cooperation with others seems a bit paranoid.
So you can have storage, but not too much, only as much to still be dependant on the grid.
See the hypocrisy here?
Not in Poland, because you are too independent.
"According to the adopted act, devices with a capacity of up to 30 kWh are exempt from any construction procedures; only reporting to the grid operator (OSD) is mandatory. Those between 30 kWh and 300 kWh in a building and 30 kWh and 2000 kWh freestanding are obliged to prepare a land development plan and make fire safety arrangements."
https://renewablesnow.com/news/poland-adopts-rules-to-ease-e...
Batteries (or pumped storage hydro, which is more like a gravity-driven capacitor)
But yeah batteries would be nice.
It's a meaningful contribution I would have thought.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
Large lake means more losses, mainly due to evaporation, but seepage is also to be expected. Now put this fact in the thread's context: water shortage/stress...
But doesn't adding a large reservoir mitigate both? You're not pumping the entire reservoir up and down hill every day.
"Most of the country has an elevation of less than 200 m. Although Hungary has several moderately high ranges of mountains, those reaching heights of 300 m or more cover less than 2% of the country."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Hungary
"Hydroelectricity is not prevalent in Hungary due to unsuitable geographical conditions and civil resentment. The country's capacity of hydroelectricity was 57 MWs in 2015."
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Microw...
> let's just use that
Also, let’s use both?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country
Hungary had the highest share of produced solar electricity of all the countries in the world 27.3%. And even with this results nuclear energy is usefull for them and plan to build new reactors. (with help from Russia, so there may be same changes in this plan)
They just absolutely cannot math the math which leaves ideology and this ain't France.
Beyond that, those resources are also the lifeline for a dictatorship in the east causing increase defense spending.
There definitely is no such thing as cheap gas, oil or coal for Europeans, all things considered
And then you habe the whole Russian drone war thing, where concentrating so much energy production on one point maybe be a bad idea