Posted on 06/01/2017 8:11:31 AM PDT by Hojczyk
California’s sun will go dark Aug. 21. And when the moon crosses the sun, California’s solar power grid will slowly, quietly, stop working.
State energy officials are warning residents to click off all lights they don’t need and unplug all electrical appliances when 62 percent of the sun disappears over Los Angeles during a partial solar eclipse that is expected that day.
Nobody is warning of blackouts. But then again, nobody knows what will happen.
Close to four percent of the power the city of Sacramento depends on comes from solar.
So this Great Solar Eclipse in August is going to be a big deal.
Picker said the CPUC could compensate with small power plants that burn natural gas. But unlike the solar facilities, the natural gas plants would emit greenhouses gases, so they’d rather not fire them up.
“We don't have to rely on expensive and inefficient natural gas peaking power plants, we can have cleaner air, we can keep our system reliable, and we can send a message to the rest of the country that we can do all of that without being forced to rely on fossil fuels as the only foundation of our electricity,” Picker said.
He hopes.
Democrats in Sacramento have introduced SB 100, legislation that would force California’s energy to come only from renewable sources like solar power by 2045.
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These people are cooky and getting worse every day. Remember the “Rolling Blackouts” of the late 1990s? It was because california didn’t produce it’s own energy, they bought it and they couldn’t afford to buy enough to keep up with their Technology Boom.
My money says they won’t even notice a difference. If they do, it will be in a regulated and short rolling black out scenario.
Nothing to see here except California collecting and burning through other peoples money with nothing to show for it.
That's the little secret the enviro nuts don't want people to know - for every kilowatt generated in Cal by solar and windmills there is a natural gas power plant that generates the same amount of energy because these so-called "renewable" sources are unreliable. The CPUC starting building them when the recalled Davis was governor. I live five miles from one of these "little" plants that was upgraded to double its capacity a few years ago.
California is place full of lefty hypocrites.
Transition may be slow, but how do we know that it’s effect on power generation would be uniform and predictable?
Its...I guess it all depends how tight the electricity situation is in CA in terms of generation and use...
I saw that right away.
More drama from the Drama Queen’s on the Left Coast
Morons can’t see the stupidity of this claim. The eclipse will last only moments but nighttime lasts many hours.
Sure, go ahead. Better unplug now just to make sure.
Because 1) it happens every day, and 2) the grid is designed to withstand and stabilize after disruptions much larger than the sun going behind a cloud -- or the moon -- or the horizon. Nightfall is roughly as quick a drop in solar energy as an eclipse. Happens every day.
This "turn stuff off" thing is just a political BS announcement, presumably for a leftist agenda.
Don't take my word for it (although what I say is true). There's tons of public information on the response of the power grid to changes in available generated power and loading. I encourage you to look it up.
I you disagree you are a Photicphobe
I you disagree you are a Photicphobe
“I don’t fear photics, but I refuse to accept their delusions. Day and night has been accepted as a fact of nature by all cultures for thousands of years. What does science and/or the Supreme Court have to say?”
/s
Jeez, liberals worry about nothing. According to Space.Com the eclipse will last 2 minutes 40 seconds at its longest.
Pull out those Y2K Handbooks.
What do they do at night?
That is when it is totally eclipsed which is a very narrow band across the earths surface. The actual partial phases on either side of an eclipse which just diminish the amount of sunlight lasts maybe an hour on each side. So 2 hours tops. I agree with you this is much ado about nothing in the grand scheme of things.
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