If Natural Gas is Prioritized for Heating Before Electricity Production, What About Oil
"Because New England’s energy markets select the lowest-priced resources to produce the electricity needed to meet consumer demand, oil-fired generators were dispatched more frequently during stretches of cold weather this winter as global LNG prices and high firm natural gas demand made natural-gas-fired generators more expensive to run."
"New England power plants burned about 80 million gallons of oil from December through February—more than three times the number of gallons burned in the previous three winters combined. About 90% of the oil burned this winter was consumed in January and early February, when temperatures were often below average. In January alone, oil-fired generators produced 4.5 times more electricity than they produced in all of 2021."
Winter 2021/2022 recap: Fuel prices drove high energy costs in New ...
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Comment by arthur qwenk on October 31, 2022 at 11:37am
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Dense Fuels Rule. Thermodynamics Controls.
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Dan,
It is utterly appalling the fuel oil and natural gas storage are at such low percentages.
It is not mentioned until the END of the ISO-NE report,, whereas, it should have been at the beginning.
It is as if the ISO-NE is purposely PLANNING to have rolling blackouts-outs, creating a scare-mongering atmosphere, on top of all other BS that is going on, during cold spells of the 23/23 winter
Why is the ISO-NE not setting MANDATORY % targets REGARDING OIL AND GAS STORAGE, Instead of taking a fingers-crossed approach, and HOPING for a mild winter.
Also, the physical CAPACITY of oil and gas storage systems NEAR POWER PLANTS, needs to be increased, as more and more UNRELIABLE, WEATHER-DEPENDENT, HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED, EXPENSIVE WIND AND SOLAR are added to the winter mix
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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