By Probe Media Scotland’s electricity system is becoming increasingly fragile as the National Energy System Operator (NESO) prepares to conduct a world-first experiment on its power grid. The operator plans to test “synthetic” or alternative stability services—such as grid-forming batteries, synchronous condensers, and other inverter-based technologies—at a scale never before attempted across an entire regional […]
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By Lawrence Solomon, published by Financial Post According to Forbes, “99 per cent of U.S. coal plants are more expensive than new renewables.” Scores of other media outlets have chimed in. “It now ‘unequivocally’ costs less to build new renewable energy projects than to operate existing coal plants, according to a new analysis,” reported Bloomberg. Except the […]