Corbis Wind power is not "dispatchable" -- that is, grid operators cannot reliably control its quantity and timing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting Household Appliances on a Low-Carbon Diet] Reference

The power becomes "dispatchable" to utilities - they can get it when their customers demand it often during peak load times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vinod Khosla: "Scheer Nonsense" -- The Damage Idealistic Environmentalists Can Do] Reference

Providing baseload power to the energy grid requires it be "dispatchable", or available on demand, a significant advantage to fossil-fuel power sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triple Pundit] Reference

For one, the electricity we can generate from biogas and landfill gas is dispatchable, meaning unlike wind and solar, we can produce it when we need it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

Summit also works with technology companies pursuing financing and commercial development of next-generation clean energy technologies, such as dispatchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

These units typically have large dispatchable ranges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Problem With Wind] Reference

Plug-in hybrids could actually be very good for the grid, since they can be made extremely dispatchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: First Plug-In Prius Delivered] Reference

Any reewable energy geenrator that cannot produce dispatchable power is doomed – wind, photovoltaic, and wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [WAVE ENERGY: Aquabuoy 2.0 Wave Power Generator | Inhabitat] Reference

There is a portfolio of solutions, a portfolio that includes both dispatchable fossil fueled plants and non-dispatchable renewable resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » An Electrical Grid We Can Believe In] Reference

So, for example, 1000 MW of installed wind power with a capacity credit of 30% can avoid a 300 MW investment in conventional dispatchable power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy transitions past and future] Reference

Although this is truly renewable, storable, and dispatchable, it does not qualify as “green” or “renewable” electricty under the standards in place in most jurisdictions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » In Search of Skepticism] Reference

It should be clear that dispatchable generation is truly premium power source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alternative Energy Stocks] Reference

As Farber put it: "A button is as close to a dispatchable power plant as you can imagine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference

In contrast, some commenters support a focus on voluntary dispatchable demand response programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cryptome] Reference

And remember the value of the wind-generated electricity is negligible because it is not dispatchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy Tribune] Reference

As a matter of fact, in my own custom version, even the creation of (dispatchable) objects was handled inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [AutoHotkey Community] Reference

According to Gould, DOE's intent at the Solar Two project was to demonstrate dispatchable power, not baseload power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alternative Energy Stocks] Reference

Add ~0. 4¢ to make it dispatchable whether the wind is blowing or not and you get under a nickel delivered to the grid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Energy] Reference

It turns out that, until we get some better electricity-storage tech, natural-gas-fueled generators are the best rapidly-dispatchable generators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaos Manor Musings] Reference

Almost half of the drop in baseload power was filled by variable power sources, with the balance requiring an increase in dispatchable generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alternative Energy Stocks] Reference

If dispatchable capacity is your concern, then I can make a significant fraction (25% or more) of PV dispatchable for the cost of plumbing your solar field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumer Energy Report ? R-Squared] Reference

That means that, if you put lots of wind power on the grid, you also need to put lots of generation that is rapidly dispatchable, to handle the steeper ramps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaos Manor Musings] Reference

So, approaching these two alternatives as a business proposition, the NG turbine produces electricity at a third the cost, and is controllable and dispatchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumer Energy Report ? R-Squared] Reference

PGE has stated that its goal with GenOnSys is to make solar power more dispatchable by treating all inverters, whether owned by PGE or its customers, as a sort of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Reference

With adequate storage and/or hybrid backup systems CSP plants can provide both base-load and dispatchable (on demand) power, like conventional fossil fuel plants. 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Reference

"It sounds like something that you don't want to talk about, something that belongs in the closet," she said and has introduced the term "dispatchable renewable power.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The company has the largest dispatchable power plant in the country, said Gregg Dixon, an executive with EnerNoc, if you totalled up all of the company's demand response capacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

… dispatchable generation is a truly premium power source.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

Such intermittency means that wind and solar power are really not “dispatchable” — you can’t necessarily start them up when you most need them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy transitions past and future] Reference

A fossil-fuel plant is dispatchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » In Search of Skepticism] Reference

"But energy efficiency and renewables are not dispatchable 24 hours a day, seven days a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [KMBC.com - Local News] Reference

"So, approaching these two alternatives as a business proposition, the NG turbine produces electricity at a third the cost, and is controllable and dispatchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumer Energy Report ? R-Squared] Reference

Hydroelectricity is renewable and dispatchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

What we want is dispatchable power.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Non dispatchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumer Energy Report ? R-Squared] Reference