intermittency
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Risks are migrating to electricity and renewable fuels faced with new vulnerabilities, such as intermittency and grid-integration challenges.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
Jacob said without more storage it will be harder to integrate wind and solar energy into the grid even if new renewable energy projects come up, because of its intermittency.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023
And of course, the intermittency of sunlight patterns can weaken a solar system without attached storage infrastructure, through batteries or other means, as the aforementioned DOE study noted.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2022
The toughest question is about intermittency - how do you keep the lights on when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow?
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2022
Such beats will show an intermittency in the blood pressure reading as well as in the radial pulse.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)
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