Eli5: how will a power grid that is mostly powered by many non synchronous renewable generators (solar and wind etc) remain stable, when the stability of the grid is currently reliant on the collective inertia of the large scale base load generators of fossil fuel and nuclear power plants?
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Look at what tesla megapacks do for the southern Australian grid as an example.
Power electronics technology available today already is sufficiently capable of running utility scale grids without any mechanical inertia. Modern inverters can produce power that is indistinguishable from synchronous generators for almost all our needs.
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