US Power Grid Operators Warn Renewable Energy Could Cause Blackouts

[Lord of Planar]

In regards to wind power. I have stated this years ago. We don't have the grid capacity to move generated electricity to where it is needed.

LUBBOCK — The state’s High Plains region, which covers 41 counties in the Texas Panhandle and West Texas, is home to more than 11,000 wind turbines — the most in any area of the state.​

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But a significant portion of the electricity produced in the High Plains stays there for a simple reason: It can’t be moved elsewhere. Despite the growing development of wind energy production in Texas, the state’s transmission network would need significant infrastructure upgrades to ship out the energy produced in the region​

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And when the rest of the state is asked to conserve energy to help stabilize the grid, the High Plains has to turn off turbines to limit wind production it doesn’t need.​

Why the Texas grid causes the High Plains to turn off its wind turbines

While wind farms in the region could help power and lower energy costs for at least 9 million homes, significant infrastructure upgrades would be needed to supply electricity from the region to other parts of the state.

www.texastribune.org

 

[bluesmoke]

Way back on June 21, you asked, "Do you understand education is at the expense of those incl people without children?"
School taxes are mostly K-12, some areas also have community college taxes, but adults can take classes there.
The additional expenses added to one's neighbors by someone using solar net metering is not as clear as taxes.
The electrical utility must cover their expenses or go bankrupt, giving a retail credit for electricity leaves no margin for the utility
to pay their expenses, increasing the overall cost of goods sold. This causes everyone's rates to increase,
part of the insidious nature of net metering, is that when the rates increase, so does the amount for each surplus credit.

So?

 

[longview]

So?

So! Net metering is an untenable position!
We must fix the problems with net metering, or the entire way we provide on demand electricity to everyone
will be compromised.

 

[Lord of Planar]

So?

Are you going to pay for the difference?

 

[noonereal]

Mistakes were made there too.

He was being sarcastic.