I don't know the credentials/bias of the author but this is an
interesting insight on what the Americans are being told about German
renewable power, and how the technology might affect life closer to home.

There are a couple of throwaway lines such as

"perhaps with techniques like paying utilities extra to keep
conventional power plants on standby for times when the wind is not
blowing and the sun is not shining. The German government has
acknowledged the need for new rules, though it has yet to figure out
what they should be"


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/sc...es-behind.html






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Chris