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Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
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Re: Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really usable for wind turbines though, the energy cost would be significant first of all (compare the blade area of a wind turbine to a plane!) The bigger issue is maintenance. Wind turbine leading edges are a very hostile environment compared to a plane and even normal materials get abraded very quickly, plus they are expected to last for many years without significant maintenance. Anti-ice systems would just n…
Given they can generate their own electricity, wouldn't it make more sense to just heat the blades?
Probably not worth the EROEI
Re: Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh, were at 1210 mw right now
When I go to that page I see "Operating Reserves: 3,126 MW"
I suspect the person you're responding to is using the featured link (real-time conditions) and looking at the diff between system capacity and current demand, which doesn't match the current operating reserves on the ercot homepage.
Re: Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
#164Weird.. you'd think with the AC demand in the summer they'd have enough capacity for winter..
I've seen comments that there's also like 13-15GW offline for maintenance (cleaning?)
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Griddy is a different provider which gives you grid prices for power
Yeah, this is the answer to slater's question, that some people have signed up for exposure to wholesale prices.
griddy's twitter is full of people angrily demanding refunds because "i signed up for cheaper rates and it's been cheaper til now why am i paying higher rates??? this is a scammer"
Re: Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Miners are being turned off at these electricity prices.
Except in places where the power is being stolen.
Example?
I'm not sure what you mean by "stolen" but I'm sure there's a ton of mining that is occurring at a statutory or downstream low-rate (as opposed to C&I based on peak or wholesale subject to the real-time market). In those cases, the electric providers should be able to pay them to curtail load but it's frankly a travesty on all accounts.
Re: Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
#167It's curious that the current tide of public opinion reckons that we're all going to be in EVs in 10-15 years, when the grid nearly collapses under the weight of everybody plugging in a heater and turning on Netflix at the same time.
Savvy grid operators are deploying large battery installations to meet demand spikes, mitigating some of the issues around that. Also the amount of solar and wind energy installations is only going to increase going forward, so no worries. Still, plenty to do.
Re: Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Griddy literally emailed every customer yesterday and told them to switch providers asap.
I hope they get some sort of a surcharge for this. Part of what you pay for with a big utility is for them to eat weird price fluctuations. Getting grid pricing just when it's convenient is cheating the system.
Probably not a surcharge, but maybe a minimum contract length? I don’t know if that’s possible (legally). But, I imagine that a utility would want to make sure that a customer who switched providers to avoid these wholesale prices would want to ensure that the customer would stick around long enough to make sense financially.
Re: Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
#169Rolling blackouts are in effect. What I have noticed is that if you drastically minimize your power consumption you drastically increase your odds of being spared from the blackouts. The observation is based upon neighborhood data posted by various homeowners to our community page.
They blackout on a home to home level? In CA it was whole towns
They blackout neighborhoods here I believe. My guess is that neighborhoods that largely heat with natural gas are spared, as they don't use a ton of electricity.
Re: Ercot nearly at capacity for Texas power grid
#170Texas-affiliated energy businesses holding their customers hostage for the global warming* events they said no one needed to worry about. This would be some world's smallest fiddle shit but for the fact I have family in the state.
Global warming means more extreme heat and* more extreme cold.