The Texas Disaster Freezing Sacrifices At The Alter Of Wind And Solar Power
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Quote:That is NOT how electric generation works, but you never cared about what does and does not work:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay.
It also means no charging your coal burning car between 6AM and 10AM today, dipshit.
22:29 CT
• Solar: 0 MW (0.0%)
• Wind: 24,209 MW (32.7%)
• Hydro: 0 MW (0.0%)
• Power Storage: 14 MW (0.0%)
• Other: 106 MW (0.1%)
• Natural Gas: 32,873 MW (44.4%)
• Coal and Lignite: 11,730 MW (15.8%)
• Nuclear: 5,123 MW (6.9%)
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Not that you care, but your inability to care is why things go wrong for you, 6ix.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:That is NOT how electric generation works
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay.
It also means no charging your coal burning car between 6AM and 10AM today, dipshit.
Yes. It is.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:It is silly that the parts of Texas that are NOT firmly tied to the national electric grid have a daily emergency when the temperature goes below freezing. But in those parts of Texas not on the national grid, the power companies can strongly prefer profitability over the reliability required by Federal law.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yes. It is.
ERCOT Expects Tight Grid Conditions, Requests Conservation Tuesday, January 16, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. CT
(Austin, TX) – With the winter storm encompassing the entire state and temperatures forecasted to be colder this evening and into tomorrow morning, ERCOT is asking Texans to conserve electricity use, if safe to do so, Tuesday, January 16, from 6 a.m. – 9 a.m. CT.
https://www.ercot.com/news/release/2024-01-15-ercot-expects-tight
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On days when grid conditions are predicted to be tight, ERCOT contracts with “ancillary” power plants that get paid to quickly dispatch energy to the grid if needed, even if they ultimately aren’t deployed. ERCOT’s independent market monitor in September estimated that from June through August, ancillary procurement raised wholesale electricity costs by $8-10 billion.
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g-091523-v2.pdf
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3 lessons learned from the Texas electric grid powering through the 2024 freeze
By Chris Tomlinson, Columnist | Jan 17, 2024
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article
/texas-freeze-electric-grid-ercot-lessons-18610322.php
Thank you to everyone who conserved electricity on Monday and Tuesday and to those who did not; you owe us one.
Winter Storm Heather will not go down in history like 2021’s Winter Storm Uri or 2022’s Winter Storm Elliott, a sign the grid operated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has improved. But Texans need to avoid learning the wrong lessons from this success.
When ERCOT called for Texans to conserve electricity, it blamed cold temperatures and lower-than-normal wind power. But that’s not the whole story; reducing reliance on renewable energy is not the answer.
The wind in West Texas was unseasonably low, reducing the electricity produced by those turbines. But wind along the Lower Gulf Coast and South Texas blew like the dickens. The problem was not a lack of power but a lack of transmission lines.
When wholesale electricity was selling for $300 a megawatt hour across most of the state, it was selling for $20 in Corpus Christi and Brownsville. Transmission is the secret sauce to building a reliable grid that does not overheat the planet with greenhouse gas emissions.
An example of the right move is Pattern Energy’s Southern Spirit transmission line, which is currently hung up by locals in Louisiana. The high-voltage, direct current line would bring nuclear power from the Mississippi to Dallas when needed and allow Texas to export wind and solar when we have extra.
I first wrote about the project in 2017, but it’s only now getting built, demonstrating the need for permitting reform. The lines will carry direct current, which, along with other factors, will allow the Texas grid to remain outside federal regulation while adding backup power.
The oil and natural gas folks argue Texas needs more fossil fuel power plants to avoid another near miss. But that’s a sales pitch by people who want to lock in a 40-year supply contract; there are a half-dozen cheaper ways to guarantee reliability.
Batteries provided 1,200 megawatts of backup power, enough for 240,000 homes, during the Tuesday morning crux after winds died down and the sun was still rising, according to ERCOT. That much power could have prevented the cascading blackouts in the first hours of Winter Storm Uri.
Battery operators, many co-located with wind and solar facilities, plan to more than double ERCOT’s battery capacity by next winter, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. Most emergency conditions on the ERCOT grid only last a few hours. Most batteries are good for at least four.
Producing more power only addresses the supply side. Texas can lower demand, too. Texans used 13% less electricity than ERCOT expected Monday morning and 10% less during Tuesday’s critical 8 a.m. hour.
Tomlinson's Take
Numerous studies show state building codes make Texas homes among the leakiest, costing homeowners hundreds of dollars a year in unnecessary energy bills. Contractors still install cheap furnaces that use electric heat strips and waste energy.
Requiring more insulation and replacing old furnaces could save enough electricity to reduce the need for new power plants. Not only would the upgrades cost less than natural gas power plants, but they would lower consumer electricity bills for a decade or more.
“Implementing these programs from 2024 through 2030 could reduce summer peak loads statewide by about 14,800 megawatts and reduce winter peak loads by about 23,500 megawatts,” an American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy report determined.
New Texas Power Plants Would Cost More than Cutting Energy Waste in Buildings
May 11, 2023
https://www.aceee.org/press-release/2023/05/study-new-texas-power-plan
ts-would-cost-more-cutting-energy-waste-buildings
If given a choice between spending $18 billion on 10,000 megawatts of pollutin
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Major power cut hits Bosnia, Albania, Montenegro and Croatia's coast
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/power-blackout-hits-montenegro-bo
snia-albania-croatias-adriatic-coast-2024-06-21/
I'm glad I didn't have to listen to these songs
"Screw You, We're From Texas"
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Texas Average IQ 94 a slight improvement on Commiefornia which is full of non-English speaker illegals
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It's Clear That Austin Is Trying It's Best To Morph Into Los Angeles As Fast As It Can
https://vidmax.com/video/229777-it-s-clear-that-austin-is-trying-it-s-
best-to-morph-into-los-angeles-as-fast-as-it-can
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smoke blocks the sun...no Solar?
California, Fire
More than 320,000 people without power
https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1877047136090542491#m
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Power outages skyrocket in Texas as severe storms blast Dallas-Fort Worth with hurricane-force wind gusts
https://www.aol.com/power-outages-skyrocket-texas-severe-105951839.htm
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Ontario Will Cut Off Electricity Exports ‘With A Smile On My Face,’ Ford says
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ontario-will-cut-off-u-s-electr
icity-exports-with-a-smile-on-my-face-ford-says
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You would be wrong if you looked at Texas Trumptards. None were ready. For example: the Trumptard across the street has a Generac natural gas powered electric generator. It came with the house, but didn't start in the cold. I got it to start manually because I can read the manual. Trumptards can also read, but they come to an understanding of what is wrong very slowly or, sometimes, never.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I bet the ratio of individuals who were prepped for a catastrophe in Texas far outnumbers the ratio of people in California.
More examples from my street: Two different Trumptards didn't get their sprinkler system vacuum breakers (FEBCO 765-1 PVB) ready for the freeze and they didn't know how to turn off the resulting gusher of water. For one case, I dug into the ground to find the valve. The other case required vise-grips because there was no handle on the shutoff valve. Did I mention that they panicked because of the huge quantities of water flowing down the street? Trumptards only have two modes. 1) Dull-witted paralysis as in the case of the Generac that won't start. 2) Panic as in the case of the water leaks. When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Actually there is a third mode: 3) Misunderstand what is obvious to anyone who is NOT a Trumptard.
While looking for the research and data I did on Wind farms, I found this little gem.
We have real answers to this now, and surprise! I'm right again and Second was wrong again.
Remember when California was burning down two weeks before inauguration and they couldn't put it out until January 31st? America does.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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