ISO-NE CEO Speaks About The Future of New England Electricity

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Comment by Willem Post on August 4, 2022 at 11:13am

If it were not for natural gas, which provided 66% of all the load onto the NE grid at 7 AM this morning, according to the ISO-NE dashboard, New England would be in deep DOO DOO

WIND AND SOLAR COULD NOT EXIST ON THE GRID WITHOUT THE BALANCING BY THE NEW ENGLAND  NATURAL GAS PLANTS

ANY SIGNIFICANT BALANCING BY HYDRO PLANTS IN QUEBEC WOULD TAKE AT LEAST A DECADE TO IMPLEMENT AT A COST OF MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, according to ISO-NE studies and independent studies.

What if there is another ICE STORM in QUEBEC, with transmission lines and towers tumbling to the ground?

Here is some data from the ISO-NE Daily Dashboard

The dashboard shows the:

System Load Graph, real-time load, MW, on an hour-by-hour basis. Hovering shows the data.

If you click on the rectangle, you get the spreadsheet showing the contribution, MW, by source, on a minute-by-minute basis

If you click on the date, type in a different date, you get the spreadsheet for that date. 

Spreadsheets can be obtained for any date of 2022, or any prior year. See URL

https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts

Fuel Mix Chart, real-time contribution to grid load, %, by source. On Aug 4 2022, at 6:51AM

Natural gas 66%. If no natural gas, NE would be where Germany, etc., is to-day.

Nuclear 25%

Renewables 7%, of which:

Wind 40% of 7% = 2.8% after 15 years of subsidies

Refuse burning 35% of 7% = 2.45%, which was pre-existing

Tree burning 18% of 7% = 1.26%, which was pre-existing

Solar 5% of 7% = 0.35%, after 15 years of subsidies

Here are some facts regarding RE in Europe.

The EU bureaucrats in Brussels use global warming to gain more relevance and power.

Everyone dancing the bureaucrats tune.

Well, that dance is over FOREVER, due to EU sanctions.

Germany approved many silly “climate progress” bills, as part of its ENERGIEWENDE, and got itself in deep DOO-DOO as a result.

German wind and solar systems produced DIDDLYSQUAT, when the sun was not shining, and the wind was not blowing, in the Spring of 2022

As a result, Germany used a lot of Russian gas, which it should have been putting in storage, but did not.

It will be up the creek big-time this winter.

Now, Germans are taking cold showers, because hot water has been shut off in apartment buildings

Germany imposed sanctions to cut Russian oil, gas and coal , which is equivalent to economic suicide.
Germany had its first monthly trade deficit in 40 years!!, plus 8.7% inflation, which is getting even higher

Norway tried to help out with its hydro plants, but it turned out it should not have, because now its reservoirs are too low due to less snow melt, and due to a drought in West Europe. How do you fix stupid?

Household electricity prices have been administratively increased to very high levels, says my brother-in- law, to reduce consumption and save reservoir water.

Ukraine will run out of soldiers before Russia will.

Remember, the industrial base is mostly in the East, now increasingly controlled by Russia.

Europe and the US, sending weapons to Ukraine to fight a NATO proxy war to the last Ukrainian, have no spare one $TRILLION to put Ukraine back together again, and neither does Russia.

Comment by Robert Feller on August 4, 2022 at 10:24am

ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie IS AN IDIOT.