Section 03 of 05
Wind & Solar
The south, the ridges, and what intermittent means. Capacity concentrated where the weather is, demand concentrated where it is not. These pieces cover siting, capacity factor, and what intermittency does and does not mean.
5 pieces in this section
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The South Carries the Sun
Solar capacity concentrated where the irradiance is, and a demand centre several hundred kilometres north. The geographic mismatch that shapes the whole network question.
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Wind Lives on the Ridges
Where Italian wind is sited and why — terrain, access and grid connection — and what capacity factor actually means for a ridge site.
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Intermittent Is Not the Same as Unreliable
The distinction the argument usually collapses: forecastable variation against unplanned outage. What each demands of the rest of the system.
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The Evening Is the Hard Part
Solar output ends before demand does. What covers the ramp, and why storage and gas are answering the same question.
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Rooftop Against Field
Distributed generation versus utility scale — different economics, different grid consequences, different land arguments.
