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Did you know that Texas, the oil producing State filled with Republican politicians who never miss a chance to criticize renewable energy, is the nation's leading wind power producer? Texas Wind Farms Generate So Much Power Utilities Are Giving Electricity Away for Free
I heard of an experiment in lower night rates. Utilities found some customers started doing laundry in the wee hours.
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Reason: Add line (written, not electrical)
We had night rates in Arizona, we loaded the washing machine earlier and started it at 9 pm. Same with the dishwasher.
In Boca Raton there were no night rates, but we had a timer that shut off the water heater during the night.
In another home we had a heat exchanger that heated our hot water with waste heat from the air conditioner. The hot water heater was switched off all summer.
First Story. Some large users are on First to Fail contracts. They agree to a Cheap Price in exchange for being the customer who goes without.
Real Bargain for all sides, overall.
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Second Story. Summer Peak Use due to Air Conditioning. Gets Hot, here. Has nothing to do with Wind or the Lack of.
A better overall design would have been More Solar and Less Wind for Texas.
But like DC noted -- there was a 2.2 centavo per Kilowatt incentive created for Big Wind.
More Solar would have / will hit the Daytime Peak use much better than Wind.
If this is the outage from some years ago, it was primarily a failure to forecast a weather related peak and secondly the failure to perform by several fossil fueled units. Wind was a distant 3rd on the list of causes.
If this is the outage from some years ago, it was primarily a failure to forecast a weather related peak and secondly the failure to perform by several fossil fueled units. Wind was a distant 3rd on the list of causes.
Yeah fortunately I had not worked on those new Coal Plants (I only got projects on upgrades to the old Legacy Plants )
The Instrumentation and Controls were not very well insulated and not heat-traced enough and the New Plants' control systems froze.
Yeah fortunately I had not worked on those new Coal Plants (I only got projects on upgrades to the old Legacy Plants )
The Instrumentation and Controls were not very well insulated and not heat-traced enough and the New Plants' control systems froze.
Places like PJM are starting to put significant penalties on capacity that fails to start when called upon. The biggest issue from my perspective was to poor forecasting. That's more critical within the ERCOT region of Texas because they have chosen not to interconnect with other regions. It is hard to fix stupid.
I just love it when the first sentence of a post and thread starts by bashing our state and the politics of SOME of its elected officials
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