On the other hand, the Colonel is also an inflexible power-seeking opportunist who ultimately gives not a damn for romantic quests.
This fails to acknowledge the need for flexible operation of fossil CCS infrastructure in future low carbon energy systems, characterised by high shares of inflexible nuclear power and intermittent renewable power supply.
Nick Mabey, the chief executive of the E3G thinktank, said: "China's inflexible coal power stations means that it wastes 40% of the clean wind power it generates in some regions.
"It seems its commitment to inflexible, outdated, unaffordable power production knows no bounds".
HANOI — The main message of Vietnam's Communist Party congress is the absence of burning issues it will deal with under a leadership secure in its dominance but also constrained by an inflexible system and the power of vested interests.
The combination of wind and solar could be particularly problematic for the future of coal (and nuclear) because it is as inflexible a source of power as you'll find -- it just doesn't mix well with variable output.
Other solutions are inefficient, inflexible, and wasteful of mass, power, and volume.
It is inflexible - generating electricity at full power or not at all - and its electricity is expensive when compared with flexible gas or coal plants.
Integrating large shares of variable renewable energy generation to a system with a large share of inflexible generation, such as nuclear power, can however lead to a decrease in system efficiency as the availability of variable renewable energy and demand can be in mismatch, further leading only to sub-optimal economic dispatch of generation units.
(varvec{LD}) and (RA_{CAP_{TR}}) are computed from the power demand of inflexible loads and by using demand matrix (([varvec{DM}]_{itimes f})), where ([varvec{DM}]_{itimes f}) represents the status and power demand of all flexible appliances of the associated homes.
