This documents a very quick effort to visualize the hypothetical electricity delivered by a 82 plus Gigawatt distributed wind power system built in Western Europe.
I used the actual wind power delivery data for January 2013 for a sample of Western European countries. The sampled countries had different size wind power capacity and actual delivery, so I multiplied some countries' actual generation by a factor to increase their weight within the system and to raise their hypothetical peak capacity to the 82 GW (arbitrary) target.
The intent is to understand whether a distributed but interconnected wind power system can serve as a baseload (steady delivery) electricity source, and whether it requires storage to achieve "baseload" performance.
Figure 1. The hypothetical delivery for a unified
interconnected wind power system for Western
Europe, using data for January 2013.
As we see in Figure 1, and previously reported by Euen Mearns (http://euanmearns.com/about-euan-mearns/) an interconnected wind power system can't deliver steady "baseload like" power. This also applies to a combined solar and wind power system, as we will see in Figure 2.
The following is the detailed look at the low wind period during 24 hours on January 8 and 9, 2013. Note the 24 hour period includes over 12 hours without sunlight.
Detailed look at the low wind period on January 8 and 9.
If the system has to deliver at least 30 GW peak capacity
it would require a 160 GW storage capacity system, able
to deliver at 11 GW peak for several hours.
Data obtained, and inspiration for this hypothetical case, came from Euen Mearns, writing at
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