Posted on 08/28/2022 7:13:09 AM PDT by rktman
CALIFORNIA CITY -- California's precariously out-of-date hybrid power grid can't handle the state's growing amounts of solar and wind energy coming online, with system managers already forcing repeated cutbacks in renewables and a continued reliance on conventional energy to keep the grid stable, according to state data.
Department of Energy No place to go: Image from the Energy Department report “Queued Up … But in Need of Transmission." Department of Energy The shortcomings of the transmission grid, which energy consultants in this bellwether state have warned about for years, raise the prospect that marquee products of the growing battery economy such as electric vehicles – "emission free" on the road – will be recharged mainly from traditional electricity-generating power plants: energy from fossil fuels, some of it from out of state.
Writ large, the transmission problem threatens the zero-carbon future envisioned by green advocates nationwide. “We’re headed toward duplicate systems whose only benefit is to permit the occasional use of ‘clean power,’” said Grant Ellis, an independent electrical engineering consultant in Texas.
California, along with the rest of the desert Southwest, is adding solar and wind installations at a rapid pace. The state is projected to add four gigawatts of utility-scale solar energy this year alone, enough to power 2.8 million homes. The question is whether that’s going to be enough.
So-called "curtailments" of renewable power have become much more frequent for the state’s blackout-prone power grid because the state hasn't constructed enough transmission lines, transformers, poles, and other infrastructure to keep up. The amount of renewable energy curtailed in California tripled between 2018 and 2021, according to operator statistics.
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For the many times I’ve repeated this here, one good way to get rid of enviro whacko policies is to strictly enforce them and make very good examples of them.
One day California’s electric grid will fail completely. It will be really hard to feel sorry for them.
Increase in hurricanes? Not one hurricane has developed this year and we are entering September in the season.
Calif has had some of the worst wildfires in the past 3 years.
Imagine being a firefighter-—WITHOUT a chain saw to clear a firebreak.
Imagine same firefighter a has a support vehicle fire truck that is ELECTRIC-—and needs to be recharged.....AT THE FIRE SCENE.....
Imagine an ambulance that is electric-—and cannot make a run to assist you-—because it is on the charger.
How many homes exist in Calif? EVERY one has to have a charger? AND the nuclear facility near San Diego isn’t operating???
NO new power plants-—but millions of new demands called EV chargers——INSANITY
This particular insanity is totally NEWSOM.
MAKE SURE IT HANGS HIM.
IMO—IT is already on life support.
Think also of the thousands of windmills coming to the East Coast, killing clams, mussels and other stationary animals. While at the same time destroying the commercial fishing fleets, throwing thousands out of work, and forcing the closure of seafood restaurants.
Well, global warming. 😊🙌
What will happen, IMO, is that with no power, no water, no food, no way to survive, there will be a mass exodus from these blue gone “green” states .....
Will they then ruin the states they mass migrate to? Probably. I don’t think the ‘green’ types learn from their mistakes ... blue-turned-green are even more “hopeless” based on the very few I know personally.
“I am an environmentalist in my heart and the biggest problem we have right now is global warming. I have been working on this for 40 years and nothing happens." -- Rajat Deb, LCG ConsultantYes. FORTY YEARS and NOTHING HAPPENS. The climate is still the same. We still get the same weather patterns. It still snows in winter and gets hot in summer. Right now, it's cooling down here in North Idaho and I put a sweatshirt on last night for the first time since early June. Nothing has happened to the climate. Do your eyes tell you anything different?
In fact, "nothing happens" can describe this month of August with NO hurricanes, the third time in 60 years.
Of course, Rajat doesn't mean "nothing happens" in that way. But he inadvertently blurted out the truth.
But "nothing happens" isn't entirely true -- something BIG and BAD is about to happen. The climatistas are ruining our electric energy system and, as a result, we are going to be sending millions of jobs overseas to countries with reliable, cheap electric power. The standard of living of Americans is going to plummet. People won't be able to afford to heat or cool their homes or drive their new wondrous EVs. Factories won't run. The whole "green" energy edifice is going to crumble like a house of cards. Affordable electricity will be a fond remembrance for those of us fortunate to be alive when engineers built and ran the world's biggest, most reliable and most affordable electric power system.
Well, the standard of living for peons/peasants yes. The assclowns will still be cozy and well fed this winter.
And every winter hereafter. Our betters deserve the best, don’t you agree?
What is most likely to happen (medium term) is that the CA grid will give intermittent power like what is seen in third world countries.
There will just be an endless stream of “temporary outages” which will become “the new normal”.
I think the OP was pointing out the idiocy of “renewable” power the little green wankers love so much.
According to the envirowhacko Gaia worshipping head case Gretas and Karens of the world, our reliance on “fossil” fuels is causing a larger number of more devastating hurricanes. The National Weather Service even predicted an increase in the number of named storm systems for this year from 14 to 20. So far, as you point out, there have been only 3 named storms with 0 developing into hurricanes.
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st to November 30th with August being the peak month. At the halfway point the predicted stormageddon is a bust. Unless Gaia is waiting to go Old Testament on our butts just because.
If no hurricanes develop this year Resident Brandon will loudly take the credit by December 2nd.
“You are the carbon they want to eliminate.”
It sounds like the Caliphonies have the EV thing figured out. Now all they have to do is figure out where they’re going to get all that electricity to charge all of those pesky batteries. ROTFL! Bet they never even thought of that.
Since the cave man days, when an area wasn’t satisfactory, people would leave.
Now they stay and gripe.
California , The Land of Rainbows and Unicorn Farts
The fickle nature of solar and wind would make reliance of them for even a substantial part of California’s energy needs impossible. Obviously solar is worthless at night and on cloudy days. Windmills need not just wind but winds in a relatively narrow range of wind speeds. Too little wind and the massive blades sit idle...too much and the windmills must be shut down least they destroy themselves. Huge batteries to store enough electricity to power even a small city for a few hours have yet to be shown practical.
Windmills = hurricane Food
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