It’s time to get urgent about the looming power supply and grid stability crisis. Grid managers and astute observers have been sounding the alarm for years. A sample from the files; Kathryn Porter 2023, PUD 2020, Menton 2023,Robert Bryce 2021, Harris 2022, Leyland 2021, Kandrack 2022, Lloyd 2022, The Energy Bad Boys and Ed Ireland..
Trillions of dollars are in play and the vested interests are making unprecedented efforts to keep the rivers of gold running into their pockets, in the face of efforts to curtail the subsidies and mandates that enable the unreliable providers to drive conventional power out of the grid, especially coal.
The people need to know what is happening, so they will demand better policies. They especially need to know about wind droughts and the lack of grid-scale storage.
Expectations for the energy transition should collapse like a punctured balloon when there is widespread awareness of the number of times when breakfast and dinner would have to be served cold without coal and gas power in the grid to provide heat. Not to mention light and all of the other things like trains, traffic lights, coffee shops and lifts that you might encounter on the way to your unlit office.
People in Australia are advised to regularly check the NemWatch widget at sunrise and sunset to see how much green (wind) you can find alongside the black and brown (coal) on the bars representing the power supply in each state. It is a live display and it resets every five minutes.
There are similar dashboards in all the grids in the world. Find yours and see how much wind and solar are contributing at dawn and dusk.
A significant lift in wind literacy will make the voting public aware of the fragility of the wind and solar supply. Everyone knows the sun is off duty at night, but few know that the wind is sometimes almost completely off duty as well. It does not help to talk about the average capacity factor of the windmills, which is around 30%, because that just prompts the rejoinder that we can overbuild to compensate.
Moreover, everyone knows that the wind comes and goes but we need to be constantly reminded about low wind periods that we don’t notice in the normal course of events.
The constant reminder could be provided by radio and TV weather reports that include the contribution of wind and solar power to the grid at the time. During the day everything looks rosy, especially in the afternoon when the solar input peaks but the crunch comes before dinnertime when the sun fades rapidly.
The RE supply is not likely to be included in weather reports anytime soon because too many people don’t want the masses to know what they need to know about wind droughts.
What if President Trump issues an executive order requiring news channels to include the amount of wind and solar power in the grid along with the temperature and the other standard items? With a parallel public education program to explain the significance of low wind periods, support for the wind and solar transmission could decline dramatically.
I think green is a mind virus , which means the deniers brains have been captured. They might enjoy living on the bread line but the majority of us have no desire to..Nuts 🤬🤬
It’s time to get urgent about the looming power supply and grid stability crisis. Grid managers and astute observers have been sounding the alarm for years. A sample from the files; Kathryn Porter 2023, PUD 2020, Menton 2023,Robert Bryce 2021, Harris 2022, Leyland 2021, Kandrack 2022, Lloyd 2022, The Energy Bad Boys and Ed Ireland..
Trillions of dollars are in play and the vested interests are making unprecedented efforts to keep the rivers of gold running into their pockets, in the face of efforts to curtail the subsidies and mandates that enable the unreliable providers to drive conventional power out of the grid, especially coal.
The people need to know what is happening, so they will demand better policies. They especially need to know about wind droughts and the lack of grid-scale storage.
Expectations for the energy transition should collapse like a punctured balloon when there is widespread awareness of the number of times when breakfast and dinner would have to be served cold without coal and gas power in the grid to provide heat. Not to mention light and all of the other things like trains, traffic lights, coffee shops and lifts that you might encounter on the way to your unlit office.
People in Australia are advised to regularly check the NemWatch widget at sunrise and sunset to see how much green (wind) you can find alongside the black and brown (coal) on the bars representing the power supply in each state. It is a live display and it resets every five minutes.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
There are similar dashboards in all the grids in the world. Find yours and see how much wind and solar are contributing at dawn and dusk.
A significant lift in wind literacy will make the voting public aware of the fragility of the wind and solar supply. Everyone knows the sun is off duty at night, but few know that the wind is sometimes almost completely off duty as well. It does not help to talk about the average capacity factor of the windmills, which is around 30%, because that just prompts the rejoinder that we can overbuild to compensate.
Moreover, everyone knows that the wind comes and goes but we need to be constantly reminded about low wind periods that we don’t notice in the normal course of events.
The constant reminder could be provided by radio and TV weather reports that include the contribution of wind and solar power to the grid at the time. During the day everything looks rosy, especially in the afternoon when the solar input peaks but the crunch comes before dinnertime when the sun fades rapidly.
The RE supply is not likely to be included in weather reports anytime soon because too many people don’t want the masses to know what they need to know about wind droughts.
What if President Trump issues an executive order requiring news channels to include the amount of wind and solar power in the grid along with the temperature and the other standard items? With a parallel public education program to explain the significance of low wind periods, support for the wind and solar transmission could decline dramatically.
I think green is a mind virus , which means the deniers brains have been captured. They might enjoy living on the bread line but the majority of us have no desire to..Nuts 🤬🤬