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Intermittency

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Intermittency
When a non-linear dynamical system alternates between periodic and chaotic behavior. See: Chaos, Dynamical Systems.


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Again, panelists agreed that the intermittency of wind and solar don t provide utilities with enough assurances to invest in as a baseload resource, but price volatility is a factor as well.
Wind is very expensive - especially offshore wind - and because of the intermittency it will not be possible to use more than 10 per cent of its output.
yesterday that significantly more generating capacity was needed in the long term to meet the country's low-carbon energy challenge, partly because of the intermittency of wind generation.
 
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