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To: Uncledave

Just to remind you, for every MW of wind generation on line, there needs to be an equal amount of other generation available to pick up rapidly when the wind stops blowing or blows to hard.

A little known fact is when the wind blows too hard the wind generator shut down.

Yes the wind generation does keep from burning fuel, but when it stops, there must be other generation available to pick up the load.

Just the NERC Reliability Coordinator in me that makes me say that.


5 posted on 07/12/2007 1:39:18 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (shoot low, they are riding Shetlands..)
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To: hadaclueonce

LOL!

Yikes!

PJM company operator here!


16 posted on 07/12/2007 10:19:53 PM PDT by NucSubs (Rudy Giuliani 2008! Our liberal democrat is better than theirs!)
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To: hadaclueonce
Cape Wind will have absolutely nothing to do with our dependence on foreign and domestic oil. Very little of our electricity comes from oil. See the US Dept of Energy figures on electricity generation! http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html Pull down the 4th pdf - "Electricity Forecast". Also please see: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/gas.html
17 posted on 07/13/2007 3:44:06 AM PDT by donatracy
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