New research from Tyndall’s International Energy Research Centre (IERC) will reduce dispatch downtime of PV power plants in Ireland. The IERC is exploring ways to reduce the amount of time that renewable energy plants have to stop producing energy, due to curtailments or constraints. Shafi Khadem, IERC is pictured with John Mullins of Amarenco Solar Limited. (Picture: Gerard McCarthy)
Have you ever driven past a wind farm on a wild day and wondered why the turbines are turned off? Well, this may be ‘dispatch downtime,’ where operators are required to stop producing renewable energy, due to curtailments or limitations with broad power systems and local networks.
In the COSTORE project, funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, the International Energy Research Centre (IERC) at Tyndall National Institute, based at UCC, has started innovative…
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