intermittency
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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At that point, storage is an option for renewables to solve the intermittency issue.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
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 recent intermittency of wind power has also made the case in ministers' minds for an "always on" part of the energy supply, our editor adds.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2021
We are both Scots besides, and I suspect both rather Scotty Scots; my own Scotchness tends to intermittency, but is at times erisypelitous - if that be rightly spelt.
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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