Re: Reply to Pearls Before Swine
California depends on out of state hydropower everyday at sunset when solar power fades out from about 4 pm to 8 pm. But what happened during 2020 summer heat wave is that nearby states had no power to sell California because those states had shifted to solar power too and needed their excess natural gas power to handle the regional heat wave.
What will happen to Oregon is vulnerability to a grid collapse when there is a heat wave or cold snap because green power has only Direct Current, not Alternating Current -— no frequency to maintain the grid Alternating Current will result in collapse. Alternating Current is what makes refrigerators, stereos, computers and water pumping stations work.. Green power has no Frequency at all. So this is such colossal ignorance that one has to wonder if Democrats want perpetual grid crises to frighten or punish their constitutents who always blame droughts, heat waves and cold snaps on an act of god, when it is they who create them.
You’re speaking out of ignorance here my friend
I put in solar and battery systems every day every week let me educate a little bit as an engineer
Solar panels Phitovoltaica. produce DC.
These are tied into what’s called an inverter
The inverter then produces alternating current AC
Solar inverters are 5 V above the utility wherever they are and therefore push electricity downhill toward the utility
Batteries are also direct current DC
He’s also utilize an inverter but it much more sophisticated it further I’m gonna call here in a real inverter it will run your house off of the batteries without the utility at all
It sure everything is a sea chest is your standard 120/240 single phase residential household electricity
Now when you’re trying to run a power grid you need something called reactive power
This is the power that is used to start motors
The reason why PG&E the largest utility in the state of California needs power now from 4-9 PM is because we have 32,000 MW of photovoltaics installed
I’ve been saying for decades now if I keep putting solar panels in everybody’s house of business house PG&E gonna make any money?
For the municipal utilities out here in California smile and Lodi electric Modesto irrigation District Turlock irrigation district a party stop net meter and put a meter on your seller and only give you wholesale now
If you’re at the helm of real property you really have two choices pay the utility or put in solar panels