You've heard of water droughts. Could 'energy' droughts be next?

ScienceDaily
Apr 12, 2022, 8:15 pm274 pts
Drawing on 70 years of historic wind and solar-power data, researchers built an AI model to predict the probability of a network-scale 'drought,' when daily production of renewables fell below a target threshold. Under a threshold set at the 30th percentile, when roughly a third of all days are low-production…

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