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Wind is extremely reliable. And it is relatively predictable, particularly on a short time scale. What it is is intermittent, which is a very different thing.

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And by planning the locations well it's also less intermittent than one might expect, or you can build wind farms in locations with opposing wind trends so that you've always got something running.

How far away from each other are those opposing wind trends ? It’s one of the issues with the global grid in europe; if you look at weather patterns; all of western europe often tends to be contained in the same cell.

And assuming you can find those opposing wind trends not too distant from each other how reliable is that (anti)correlation.

That planning means you can ask factories to plan their energy use around high wind power times.

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