Energy: Expectations and reality

Energy: Expectations and reality

We are able to use energy as much as we want, whenever we want. and at a price, controlled by the regulator.

The energy supply systems were essentially centralized, designed to robustly meet demand and, above all, backed by firm sources that are available by dispatch from an independent system operator.

The new sources such as solar and wind, which emerge as preferred alternatives, have a different characteristic from the traditional ones: they are intermittent. When there is no sun or wind, and even when its intensity is lower. .

These sources require investments in other, traditional ones, to face their intermittence.

We should therefore get used to the fact that the supply of energy will be more expensive with the increasingly massive introduction of these (solar/wind) sources.

This differs from the prevailing perception that sun and wind are free.