Talk:Wind-diesel hybrid power system

Opening paragraph
Have reworked opening paragraph - move to remove the tag from the top. Anyone? Wurzeller (talk) 19:16, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Can we further discuss "penetration?"
Sad to say, I just discovered this entry. It is certainly welcome. I love the table of installations; I hope to be able to add some information soon about some of the sites.

It occurred to me, though, that the entry would benefit from a more in-depth discussion of the term "penetration." This article uses windProduction/totalProduction as the definition. Some use "Capacity Factor" for that measure. Many use windCapacity/dieselCapacity for a penetration percentage. Arguments can be made for the utility of windCapacity/averageLoad or windCapacity/minimumLoad as better measures of penetration level. Moreover, people talk about low-, medium-, and high-penetration without very clear boundaries. This entry feels to me as if it's a natural place for that overview as well.

In any event, it seems to me that this entry should expand over time to include a deeper dive into the issues related to increasing levels of wind penetration. Before launching into any significant elaboration, though, I wanted to gauge the thoughts of other interested parties.

Comments / thoughts?

AAxworthy (talk) 11:52, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Penetration Observations
I think it also uses WindPower/TotalPower (i.e. instantaneous penetration), perhaps the definitions should use the penetration and a time period, e.g. annual wind penetration of 60% vs short term maximum penetration of 90%. As for levels for low, medium, high that seems to vary according to who you talk and their country but perhaps:

0..30% low penetration 31..80% medium and 81..100% high

I had a look at Ackermans Wind Power Systems but that didnt help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.122.246.231 (talk) 05:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Merge discussion
A merge discussion for something unrelated was at Talk:Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity where one editor decided three different articles should be merged together. No one at this article was told. If you want to participate in the discussion, please go there and join in. I have reverted the merge for reasons listed in that discussion.  D r e a m Focus  16:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC) I undid