Posted on 02/21/2021 3:00:43 PM PST by boxlunch
Why so nasty?
I didn’t say anything about Cruz. Not sure what you are talking about?
I meant the Texas **State** legislature needs to make policies and laws to counteract the federal subsidies.
I did not say you said anything about 'fly away Cruz'... I linked an article that explains that 'fly away Cruz' has been up to his eyeballs in 'wind' energy and received the coveted award from a wind seller for his representation of 'wind' energy. Facts of who have fed this 'green' energy myth are NOT only the full blown communists ... fake conservatives have played their roll in selling 'wind', except when there is NO wind.
Ok good to know. Cruz has repeatedly outed himself as a fake conservative but I did not know he’s been promoting green energy!!
Here is what I posted earlier. Unfortunately, the energy market cannot be explained in a few paragraphs but I did my best.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3936255/posts?page=114#114
“Wind power is an interruptible supply that is treated like a firm supply by know nothings (politicians on all sides, but especially Kerry, Obama, Biden and AOC). Ditto for solar. Electric utilities have to buy electricity from both wind and solar suppliers and then when they do not perform, the utility has to go into the market and purchase what the inefficient interruptible wind and solar suppliers don't produce, at a much higher price especially in critical time. If I were a utility and were allowed to do what made sense I would charge the correct pricing signal to the interruptible suppliers. Right now that is not happening. My guess, this pricing malfunction is causing market disruptions. “
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3936255/posts?page=118#118
“ Utilities are allowed a very small reserve margin. On extreme days, pipelines will call Critical Time minimizing flexibility (draw) on a daily and hourly basis. The utility's gas controllers (heroes in my estimation).will pack the line (distribution system) to meet hourly requirements. If utility customers’, aka end users’, suppliers do not nominate what is actually being used the utility will have to make up the difference. That difference will come from utility owned storage or storage services purchased from pipelines.
Utilities are governed by local Public Utility Commissions (PUC).
Pipelines are governed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).”
Thank you. I agree that going green is at the bottom of it. Now we need to ask our state leaders why are out of staters allowed to make decisions regarding anything Texas.
Is there a site that lists all the ERCOT members and the state that they hail from?
This was expressed in many different ways involving diverse sources of energy production and distribution, and of electric power generation and distribution, and the magnitude of the reserves of production, generation and distribution required during very widespread and very cold weather.
A form of the "choose any two of the three" adage applies here. When governments choose how much electricity they want generated in their territory, they can have any two of cheap, plentiful and reliable.
Texas prioritized cheap and plentiful over reliable, which meant some Texans froze to death in the dark this month. Whether that was cost-effective might be re-examined.
C.G. Use these two previous postings Biden EPA rulings
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3936608/posts
http://ww.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3936590/posts
I believe it was on the ERCOT website but has been taken down. I saw a screen capture image on an FR thread several days ago. Several from out of state and I think two from out of country!
Will look around more tomorrow to see if I can find it.
No not clear - are you saying the power lines were down PERIOD or that the power lines were not down?
This time was different, the generation wasn’t there. 32,000 MWs of wind was down. This is becoming typical in a polar vortex situation and happened in 2019. The problem developed over the last 20 years, in the last to years alone we shut down 95,000 MWs of reliable baseload coal energy. We sacrificed it for unreliable green energy. We in the industry knew this would be the consequence. And no one else should be surprised.
The CEO of Great River Energy in MN said “wind is the new baseload. GRE is shutting down a 1100MW baseload coal plant in ND. They want to cancel coal. The CEO is a democrat who wants to get into politics and will probably be the governor soon. He’s another moron who this replacing reliable baseload with unreliable green energy is a good thing.
Yes that’s true. And very sad. It’s the result of ignorant people making ignorant decisions over the last 20 years.
https://ieefa.org/minnesotas-great-river-energy-to-replace-1151mw-coal-creek-plant-with-wind-power/
Good luck!
Personally, I think every home appliance and electronic device should have its own nuclear power source.
To the extent they’re on the same floor, lamps, night lights and such could probably share a reactor.
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