
748 Solar Bicycles, Mercedes, Handcuffs—PlusEnergy Buildings
Figure 44.45 Central Europe needs regulating energy: The left chart shows
the huge fluctuations in wind energy production during a week in May 2006
in Germany. The excessive wind energy is ideally used as pump energy in
pump storage power plants. The figure on the right shows that production
fluctuations will massively increase in Europe and will probably amount to
60,000 MW by 2020. This ecologic, excessive and cheap wind energy has to
be used.
of wind energy are combined with PV and water power, the
disadvantages are transformed into advantages: The excessive and
therefore cheap wind and solar ...