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Energy Modeling: the Good, the Bad, and the Misleading

Decouple

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Decarbonization Through Windwater Solar and a Few Other Technologies

Even a sophisticated model that shows why a thing should work is downgraded in importance compared to checking to see whether it appears to actually work. So even if the modeling starts to change and say, ah, something's occurring, we didn't realize this factor. When we model down to lower levels of the distribution grid, not just the transmission grid, it looks like we have these extra costs that suddenly have to be spent. And then this part doesn't work. But the hour to hour, just say nothing a minute to minute or for the love of God second to second modeling that we need to get closer and closer to when we have highly shifting flows from renewable energy.

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