Roger Caiazza has a post up at his outstanding site about a National Energy Report Card report that happens to give natural gas the only “A” among all energy sources. The report was produced by Northwood University’s McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Here is the report card itself:
Why is the nat gad capacity facto so low at 54%? Is it an actual figure derived from runtimes meaning there were times that these plants could not be bid economically in an ISO auction??. Or is it the availability based on readiness of the plant to produce power? Thanks
Thank you Roger and Thomas! An excellent article. I cannot help being extremely concerned about threats to our Grid by nefarious actors. Here we are with an invasion of our country of some very evil people and the administration reaffirms the "Open Border" policy....Meanwhile, they push renewables and more High Voltage Transmission connections, rather than keeping Regional Utilities with the capability to compartmentalize states or portions of states with reliable Bulk Power Supply. I am not a fan of CBS 60 Minutes, but they did have a revealing segment with past FERC Commissioner John Wellinghoff. Here is the 60 Minutes link and a few other published information on vulnerability of the Grid. Most of our threats are self imposed by misguided Bureaucrats in our government.
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A great explanation.
One question if I may.
Why is the nat gad capacity facto so low at 54%? Is it an actual figure derived from runtimes meaning there were times that these plants could not be bid economically in an ISO auction??. Or is it the availability based on readiness of the plant to produce power? Thanks
Fossil fuels are the only sensible transition to a nuclear powered future - renewables are to power generation, what an ashtray is to a motorbike
Thank you Roger and Thomas! An excellent article. I cannot help being extremely concerned about threats to our Grid by nefarious actors. Here we are with an invasion of our country of some very evil people and the administration reaffirms the "Open Border" policy....Meanwhile, they push renewables and more High Voltage Transmission connections, rather than keeping Regional Utilities with the capability to compartmentalize states or portions of states with reliable Bulk Power Supply. I am not a fan of CBS 60 Minutes, but they did have a revealing segment with past FERC Commissioner John Wellinghoff. Here is the 60 Minutes link and a few other published information on vulnerability of the Grid. Most of our threats are self imposed by misguided Bureaucrats in our government.
1. POLITICO Report on Extremists Attacks on Power Grid, Sept. 2023: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/power-grid-attacks-00114563
2. 60 Minutes program on Vulnerability of Electric Grid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65siHaUPsRM
3. POLITICO, Power Grid Attacks, Dec. 26, 2022: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/26/physical-attacks-electrical-grid-peak-00075216
4. FERC Energy Regulator States, “Power Grid is Facing Dire Consequences Due to Coal & Gas Retirements”, “WUWT June 2023: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/13/federal-energy-regulatory-commissioner-mark-christie-power-grid-is-facing-dire-consequences-due-to-coal-gas-retirements/