Wind and solar energy, due to their inconsistencies, cannot be primary sources of power
When the first electric grid was developed in the 1870s, it came as a huge blessing to everyone. Electricity had a great impact on personal use and companies could do business longer and more effectively. The early grids would later be revolutionized into an infrastructure that could generate and distribute power to the whole nation. For decades, the grid has held down America’s electrical life. However, it is now aging.
⚡️With the delivery system, we have today, it is very unlikely that the grid will take us into the ever-evolving energy world in the future.
There are impediments to keeping the grid reliable as electrical infrastructure. The occurrences of outages keep increasing, just as its duration.
There are other sources of producing electricity such as solar, wind, coal, etc. which many support as an alternative to fossil fuel. However, wind and solar are inconsistent in their generation of power. No wind would mean no power and the absence of sun would be a complete absence of power. The design of the grid is incompatible with this inconsistency, and as such, wind and solar have proven incapable of primarily producing electricity.
Solar energy isn’t put to waste though, as it has been developed into tiny power stations as many today own solar panels, and by law, Americans that own these panels are required to send power back into the grid. This way, solar energy serves as some sort of secondary input to electricity.