How to Use intermittency in a Sentence

intermittency

noun

• Because of their intermittency, wind and solar require backup from coal and gas.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 5 June 2020
• So is solar, which suffers from the same intermittency problems as wind, along with not being available at night.
  — Jonathan Lesser, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• The weakness of energy systems powered by the sun and the wind is their intermittency.
  — Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 20 June 2017
• Current models fail to price in the cost of intermittency and the effect of spikes or falls on the demand for fossil fuels.
  — Richard Lum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
• This will help to stabilise supply and address grid intermittency.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
• Their broader point that wind and solar are still challenged by intermittency, however, is spot on.
  — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The air up there is a vast potential reservoir of energy, if its intermittency can be overcome.
  — Alexis Madrigal, WIRED, 15 June 2009
• From the other side, wind has been shown to be less favorable than solar, and both of these renewables have the intermittency problem.
  — Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• Wind and solar will also require storage systems to cope with intermittency.
  — Gautam Kalghatgi, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• Standard renewables like solar and wind face challenges due to their intermittency and the massive land area required on a small island.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
• This has reduced the need for other ways to compensate for intermittency, like energy storage.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
• Energy storage has been counted on to help solve the intermittency problems of solar and wind but the duration of most battery systems lasts up to just four hours.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
• Data centers also require constant connection, so the intermittency of wind and solar could prove tricky.
  — Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2025
• But renewable sources have a problem with intermittency — that is, producing power from solar when the sun is not shining or from wind power when the wind isn’t blowing.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Wind and solar power have intermittency issues and their federal tax credits are expiring.
  — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 14 May 2026
• But a grid with a larger proportion of wind and solar requires more storage capacity to overcome intermittency.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Renewables require a more dynamic grid, more energy storage, and a wider range of power sources to compensate for their intermittency.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
• At the same time, next-generation smart grid technology that is needed to address intermittency is often overlooked.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• Asked about the intermittency of solar and wind, Nutting pointed out that during the Texas freeze last year most of the outages were due to natural-gas failures.
  — Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Big batteries, which store energy when the sun isn’t shining and wind isn’t blowing, are fixing renewables’ intermittency issues.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
• Renewable wind and solar energy still have some intermittency issues, even with batteries.
  — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
• That’s because renewables will still be dogged by their intermittency problem (the sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow), a problem for which there is, as yet, no workable solution.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 6 Nov. 2021
• That’s because wind and solar have problems with intermittency — that is, solar production slips when the sun doesn’t shine and electricity generated by wind wanes when breezes don’t blow.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Jan. 2018
• While wind and solar can generate huge amounts of energy, their intermittency and non-availability during peak demand hours present a major challenge for nations.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
• So while renewables are plagued by the problem of intermittency because the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, nuclear power remains constantly available.
  — Kristen Walker, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
• To succeed at scale a resilient ASEAN grid must cope with the key challenge faced in all renewables—intermittency.
  — Yew-Poh Mak, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
• Lazard’s data didn’t account for government subsidies or the intermittency of renewables.
  — Dieter Holger, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2021
• Navigating this intermittency, as it’s known among energy geeks, demands a fundamental rethink of how consumers use and even help store energy.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 31 Jan. 2022
• The intermittency of growing renewable capacity also means that there is an increase in for balancing by a stable and dispatchable baseload such as coal or natural gas.
  — Baker Institute, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• However, the issues of intermittency and electricity storage remain unresolved and are at least two decades away from workable solutions.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021