So the reporting now is that pipes moving gas have frozen up, meters and
sensors and such have frozen up, and all that mitigates against
producing electrons at nukes and fossil PPs. None of that makes sense to
me. I can see where not having interconnections (which was the issue
like 10yr ago when the wind died on NYDay and all the wind machines in
West Texas shut down in a few minutes) limit pulling in power but I
don't get how cold weather (and not "winterizing") cuts down on base
load and peaking plants not working. Makes no sense to me.
Wind at 20% is quite a bit, esp on really cold days when the demand is
as high as in hot days in the summer. I don't know if there was a
problem spinning up plants, or lack of fuel supply, or what, but the
cold being a factor in delivering fuel or operating fossil or nuke
plants is kinda strange.
--FT
On 2/17/21 4:12 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
I checked with a buddy in the industry this morning, and he said that Texan’s
power woes are of their own doing, and have little to nothing to do with wind
turbines, which he said consist of less than 20% of their total grid output on
a windy day.
He said that Texas has been a bit “uppity” about being able to produce large
amounts of power for their own consumption, and as a result have done little to
improve or increase their interconnectivity with the national grid. As a
result, their ability to import power is severely limited, resulting in the
current (no pun intended) situation. Their generating capacity has been hobbled
by the weather, and they don’t have big enough pipes to bring enough additional
power in to offset the loss in generating capacity.
While he didn’t say it, the implication was that there are going to be a lot of
people in the business playing the “I told you so” card with them in the future…
-D
On Feb 17, 2021, at 3:14 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
They pretend to listen during the election >campaign but so soon as they are elected
they do >whatever they think they want to without any real >consideration of what
we want.
Close. The politicians do whatever they are paid to do by their true
constituents, the lobbiests.
Rick
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