Polar Vortex Highlights Natural Gas-fired Generation Vulnerabilities

Electric Light and Power ^ | 02/25/2014 | Teresa Hansen

[henkster]

True. I thought Wilkes brought the term with him from Chicago.

[Wuli]

let me see: energy grid companies + risk & cost of possible unusual circumstantes = ???

= normal planning requirements of energy grid companies

yes - the cold did go further south and more often did so, than usual, but its not like it NEVER has, and its not like no one knew that “weather is NOT predictable”, and so, in order to be sure, energy grid providers HAVE to plan on the unexpected

[BigpapaBo]

+1 on what you said.
The idiots are forcing old coal burners offline around here too. With no real plans to replace them. That, and we just permanently shut down a base load nuke (Kewanee).
Gee wunderkind why we have these events. Just wait until the economic slump turns around. Rates will skyrocket, and businesses will choose to move to the cheap energy.

[Huskrrrr]

I’ve have a PhD

“Post Hole Digger”

[cloudmountain]

“Post Hole Digger”

Good one.