Renewable energy stopped stage 6 load-shedding in South Africa

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Renewable energy stopped stage 6 load-shedding in South Africa

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has found that renewable energy helped combat load-shedding in the first quarter of 2019.

The CSIR said that variable renewable energy (VRE) helped to relieve pressure on the South African power grid and was a major factor in avoiding further load-shedding.
 
The time-of-day effects are rather complicated, and even the chart doesn't explain it fully:

CSIR-VRE-load-shedding.jpg
 
But but... renewables are just too unreliable to use for grid power. :rolleyes:
 
Wait how could it have stopped stage 6 if we never officially went to 5? I know a lot of places were basically stage 5 but no one officially went there?
 
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