Texas begging natural gas plants to supply reliable electricity to backstop wind and solar
Direct proof that wind and solar increase the cost of grid reliability
Winter Preparations
"To avoid more emergencies, ERCOT issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to secure backup generation for the 2023-2024 winter. The RFP for “Firm Fuel Supply Service” would be for on-demand power generation from November 15, 2023, to March 15, 2024 with a due date of September 1.
ERCOT received proposals from five Qualified Scheduling Entities. QSEs are pre-qualified power wholesalers who buy and sell electricity on the wholesale market and act as intermediaries between individual independent generators.
The five QSEs that responded offered 32 different generating stations that could provide guaranteed backup power whenever ERCOT calls for it:
- All 32 Generation Resources were entirely natural gas-fired power generation facilities and were awarded $9,000/MW (the cap established by the Public Utility Commission of Texas)."
ERCOT Readies 'Retired' Gas Generation for the 2023/24 Winter Peak ...
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Comment by Willem Post on October 5, 2023 at 8:00am
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Forever variable wind and solar have lost a lot of Media and subsidy induced attractiveness in 2023, because of about 40% increases in $/installed MW, due to high inflation, and high interest rates, and supply chain constraints, which cause costly project delays; offshore wind had a greater than 60% increase in $/installed MW
This is causing an increase in c/kWh, far beyond the cost of fossil c/kWh, which does not require massive grid expansion/augmentation, plus a fleet of counteracting/balancing/supplementing plants, usually gas-fired, to ensure the decades-old standard 99.98% reliable electricity service, is maintained 24/7/365, year after year
Texas finally admitted, it needs at least 32 GAS FIRED POWER PLANTS TO SUPPLEMENT ITS EXISTING FLEET to ensure the 99.98% standard is maintained
ISO-NE, etc., should ensure likewise
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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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