Posted on 10/11/2019 6:51:28 PM PDT by mdittmar
I shall assume this jerk, Borenstein, is addressing the people in California.
You know, the state that does all the things that a good socialist country would do.
We, other 49 states, don’t have the disastrous laws and regulations that they have. See the difference??
This is BS. The rest of the country is swimming in water.
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So is CA, but they now allow it all to run off to the sea rather than storing it in holding ponds as they used to decades ago. They must protect the fish in the rivers and other river life with adequate water flows, else it would be a calamity of the first magnitude.
Only good thing I see in the shutdown, ..it forces the public to realize PV and wind power doesn’t help when the inverters won’t allow them to produce without a reference voltage.
When PG&E shuts down the distribution systems, so too does the alt power systems get shut down.
Also it is reported the largest density of electric powered cars are in the areas where the power is being shut down for 5 days at a time. Electric only car owners now inquire how they are going to get their cars someplace to get them recharged.
Of course that implies heavier loads on adjacent circuits.
IMHO, there is now more risk when they go back to re-energize the circuits, that by leaving them energized. It’s always easier and less risky to trip the breakers than closing them back in.
Regarding UG, vs OH, cost is easily 3-5x higher for UG, not to mention tracing out ph-ph faults on OH is much easier for less designed systems. Reclosing for OH is safer as the faults tend to be self-clearing in wind caused faults.
Might be simpler to change their reclosing times to 33s or min rather than 3-5 sec.
Smart intelliruptor installation might improve safety, though more costly than other interrupter schemes.
My impression was they were shutting down power at 35kV and less, possibly 115kV and less, but the HV towers were much higher than the LV/MV systems inside the treelines.
Off course, for high winds, I suspect the tall towers might only be designed for say 100 mph winds and above 30 ft, the winds get much higher when unimpeded by terrain, vegetation, and structures. They might not be designed for higher gusts over 3 sec in some of those areas.
“good report”
The video is now no longer available.
Apparently it was too good.
Thought the utility shut the electricity but a number of fires started anyway..?
There will be more if the Canadian election goes poorly.
They ate the trees!
I don’t understand why solar must be tied to the grid.
I am well trained on the solar farm inverters but that is different than home stuff.
If I am putting panels up they are going to battery.
Big solar sells for .45kWH, ridiculous.
Some people can't handle the truth...
Here's an older one....where he makes very good sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPpP3vbD5c
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