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California tests off-the-grid solutions to power outages as extreme heat, fires threaten supply
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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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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

Profit motive. Superior to government planning any day of the week.

1 posted on 06/30/2021 11:24:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 06/30/2021 11:30:35 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: BenLurkin

Distributed generation, rather than one gigantic grid, lots of separable microgrids. Pretty smart


3 posted on 06/30/2021 11:31:38 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: RomanSoldier19

Well, the Russkies had them.


4 posted on 06/30/2021 11:31:44 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin
"Profit motive. Superior to government planning any day of the week."

[GASP!] An AMERICAN!!!

We need our shock troops: Call in Antifa!

Is he wearing a mask? Is he vaccinated? He must be part of a militia.
5 posted on 06/30/2021 11:34:08 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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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.


6 posted on 06/30/2021 11:35:02 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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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.


7 posted on 06/30/2021 11:50:53 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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To: babble-on

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.


8 posted on 06/30/2021 11:58:39 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Afterguard

And you probably can’t flee wildfires if it is destroying the grid.


9 posted on 06/30/2021 12:28:16 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: BenLurkin

Back to the future, way way back.


10 posted on 06/30/2021 12:33:47 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: BenLurkin

Build REAL power plants. These stupid gimmicks are worthless and meaningless trivialities.


11 posted on 06/30/2021 12:42:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“You just can't beat the person who never gives up” -- Babe Ruth)
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Those conflicting edicts come from two different departments that don’t talk to each other.


12 posted on 06/30/2021 12:43:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“You just can't beat the person who never gives up” -- Babe Ruth)
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13 posted on 06/30/2021 1:00:49 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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“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 ...


14 posted on 06/30/2021 1:02:03 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: BenLurkin

Autonomy from government clusters is good.


15 posted on 06/30/2021 1:38:47 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

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.


16 posted on 06/30/2021 2:00:37 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: babble-on

in some waysyes, others no


17 posted on 06/30/2021 2:07:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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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.


18 posted on 06/30/2021 2:36:37 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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“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.


19 posted on 06/30/2021 3:41:42 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“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.


20 posted on 06/30/2021 3:53:16 PM PDT by Paperpusher
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