Energy transition on the power grid is much more complicated than simply replacing fossil fuel and nuclear generators with wind and solar generators. Maintaining high-quality, reliable power will require a lot more than simply adding batteries to a high-renewables grid. Engineers have to maintain stable voltage, current, and real power\u2026 which involves manipulating\u00a0elusive\u00a0factors like reactive power and frequency,\u00a0while implementing technologies to compensate for various kinds of instability. It\u2019s very technical, and we don\u2019t claim to really understand it, but in this episode we\u2019re going to take an initial whack at it anyway with the help of a systems engineer with ABB,\u00a0in an attempt to understand a little bit more about the arcane art of power engineering, and in particular, voltage stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How can we maintain stable voltage and frequency on the power grid as we replace conventional synchronous generators with wind and solar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[341,338,342,344,340,339,343,337],"class_list":["post-1331","xen_episodes","type-xen_episodes","status-publish","hentry","category-energy-transition-show-podcasts","tag-apparent-power","tag-current","tag-frequency","tag-power-engineering","tag-reactive-power","tag-real-power","tag-synchronous","tag-voltage","xen_guests-martin-wastljung"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n