<story><title>Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days</title><url>https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/costa-rica-has-run-on-100-renewable-energy-for-299-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DennisP</author><text>We really need two words for renewables: one for types that scale but don&amp;#x27;t provide power on demand (wind, solar), and the other for types that provide power on demand but aren&amp;#x27;t available at scale everywhere (hydro, geothermal).&lt;p&gt;Costa Rica is blessed with plenty of the second type and uses it. Because we lump it all into &amp;quot;renewables,&amp;quot; it sounds like it should be easy for everyone to follow their example, and that&amp;#x27;s not the case. No country has run on a high percentage of wind&amp;#x2F;solar&amp;#x2F;battery for a long period of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cesarb</author><text>&amp;gt; We really need two words for renewables: one for types that scale but don&amp;#x27;t provide power on demand (wind, solar), and the other for types that provide power on demand but aren&amp;#x27;t available at scale everywhere (hydro, geothermal).&lt;p&gt;The wording you are looking for is &amp;quot;dispatchable&amp;quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dispatchable_generation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Dispatchable_generation&lt;/a&gt;).</text></comment>
<story><title>Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days</title><url>https://www.under30experiences.com/blog/costa-rica-has-run-on-100-renewable-energy-for-299-days</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DennisP</author><text>We really need two words for renewables: one for types that scale but don&amp;#x27;t provide power on demand (wind, solar), and the other for types that provide power on demand but aren&amp;#x27;t available at scale everywhere (hydro, geothermal).&lt;p&gt;Costa Rica is blessed with plenty of the second type and uses it. Because we lump it all into &amp;quot;renewables,&amp;quot; it sounds like it should be easy for everyone to follow their example, and that&amp;#x27;s not the case. No country has run on a high percentage of wind&amp;#x2F;solar&amp;#x2F;battery for a long period of time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wp381640</author><text>&amp;gt; No country has run on a high percentage of wind&amp;#x2F;solar&amp;#x2F;battery for a long period of time.&lt;p&gt;Only because it&amp;#x27;s early. The first grid-scale battery only went online 3 years ago.&lt;p&gt;In that example (South Australia) you only have to look at this chart[0] to see what it done to grid renewable demand and where the trend is heading.&lt;p&gt;There are multiple GW more of additional battery coming online over the next few years&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;opennem.org.au&amp;#x2F;stripes&amp;#x2F;sa1&amp;#x2F;?metric=renewablesProportion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;opennem.org.au&amp;#x2F;stripes&amp;#x2F;sa1&amp;#x2F;?metric=renewablesProport...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>