Posted on 06/30/2021 11:24:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
During both crises, a Native American reservation on California’s far northern coast kept the electricity flowing with the help of two microgrids that can disconnect from the larger electrical grid and switch to using solar energy generated and stored in battery banks near its hotel-casino.
As most of rural Humboldt County sat in the dark during a planned shutoff in October 2019, the Blue Lake Rancheria became a lifeline for thousands of its neighbors: The gas station and convenience store provided fuel and supplies, the hotel housed patients who needed a place to plug in medical devices, the local newspaper used the conference room to put out the next day’s edition, and a hatchery continued pumping water to keep its fish alive.
During a few hours of rolling blackouts last August, the reservation’s microgrids went into “island mode” to help ease stress on the state’s maxed-out grid.
Energy experts said the tribe’s $8 million microgrids highlight the technology’s potential in providing reliable power to hospitals, fire stations and other small-scale operations that can provide emergency services during a disaster, and to remote communities vulnerable to power loss.
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Profit motive. Superior to government planning any day of the week.
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Distributed generation, rather than one gigantic grid, lots of separable microgrids. Pretty smart
Well, the Russkies had them.
Ca, environmental regulations will not allow anyone to have Batteries. They have no control over Indian reservations or the Casino would not have been allowed to do this. even if Ca ever allowed this they would make it so expensive with regulation compliance and permitting no one could afford it.
One of the most comical things about this problem CA is facing is that the CA government is demanding citizens go full electric with their cars, while asking citizens not to charge their electric cars during the electric crisis.
Can’t make that up.
We do not have one giant grid in the US. There are several power pools, each with a different “phase angle”. People who work in power plants will know what I am talking about.
The only way to interconnect with theses power pools is to convert your AC to DC, then back to AC on the other gird.
And you probably can’t flee wildfires if it is destroying the grid.
Back to the future, way way back.
Build REAL power plants. These stupid gimmicks are worthless and meaningless trivialities.
Those conflicting edicts come from two different departments that don’t talk to each other.
“California tests off-the-grid solutions to power outages as extreme heat, fires threaten supply “
i bet they never thought about testing greater production of reliable electricity ...
Autonomy from government clusters is good.
I do work in the power industry...the USA has 3 interconnects as they are properly called. You are correct each has a different phase angle of their nominal 60hz frequency. It was attempted at one point to try to synchronize the Eastern and Western interconnects but the reactive power and system inertia was too great to bring each into.synchronous. Texas has ERCOT and the third interconnect which is also on it’s own phase angle. Texas could phase synchronize to either the Eastern or Western interconnects but not both. As it stands there are a few back to back AC/DC/AC tie ins between the East and West. Texas has five ties of 100 to 600 mw each and a variable frequency transformer of 100 megawatts in Laredo that is the only means of AC to AC transfer of differing phase angles.
The Tres Amigas project was to be in New Mexico as a 30,000 megawatt AC/DC/AC with a three way DC to DC tie allowing up to 30,000 megawatts to flow from any of the interconnects to any other one but politics shut it down. The blackout in Texas in Feb wouldn’t have happened with 30,000 megawatts of inport power on tap but Texas would have to abide by the feds rules and they refused it is why ERCOT doesn’t cross state lines to keep the feds via the commerce clause out. Having a DC tie of that level of significance will fall under the commerce clause and it was rejected.
in some waysyes, others no
Remember, the reason they want you to have an electric car is so that they can turn off the electric. Think about it. If they turn off the electric, you won’t have any refrigeration, heating, lights, etc. and with electric cars you won’t even be able to escape to someplace that has electric.
“Remember, the reason they want you to have an electric car is so that they can turn off the electric. Think about it. If they turn off the electric, you won’t have any refrigeration, heating, lights, etc. and with electric cars you won’t even be able to escape to someplace that has electric.”
I think so too. This is all the insane Communist Sierra Club wanting to exterminate our species altogether.
“Energy experts said the tribe’s $8 million microgrids highlight the technology’s potential in providing reliable power to hospitals, fire stations and other small-scale operations that can provide emergency services during a disaster, and to remote communities vulnerable to power loss.”
reliable power was standard in the US before the commies took over.
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