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TECHNOLOGY

Can Wind Hybrid Power Plants really provide Ancillary Services?

Published on 22nd October 2018 by Antonio Martinez

Ancillary services are crucial to a grid’s integrity. Frequency control and network support and control are grid services normally provided by conventional coal or gas generation. There’s a misconception that only traditional fossil power stations can provide these ancillary grid services.

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TECHNOLOGY

Hybrid is now, not tomorrow

Published on 4th August 2018 by Manuel Reiband

Players in the renewable space talk of the promise of hybrid as if it’s yet to be realized. In fact, the elements behind hybrid technology are nothing new.

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TECHNOLOGY

The Importance of Renewable Hybrid Solutions in India

Published on 18th July 2018 by Amar Variawa

In India, land is our scarcest resource. That’s why wind and hybrid solutions with various renewable energy sources make so much sense to optimize the resources like land, transmission infrastructure, etc. 

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TECHNOLOGY

Could India’s hybrid vision lead the world? 

Published on 30th June 2018 by Amar Variawa

You might be surprised to know that it’s not only the developed world that leads the drive towards renewable energy and the use of Wind-Solar (+Storage) hybrid power plants, it’s countries like India who set the pace. 

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TECHNOLOGY

Clean, Cheap and Reliable – the new paradigm for renewable energy

Published on 4th June 2018 by Manuel Reiband

Any talk of a hybrid solution must be discussed in the context of the problems it will solve; problems such as the intermittent nature of wind and solar generation, low capacity utilization of electrical infrastructure, or the difficulties around predicting and dispatching some renewable generation.

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