SO-NE publishes amounts, sources of electric energy used to meet demand in 2022 The Chase for Zero Carbon is Futile

IJANUARY 30, 2023

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ISO New England has published a breakdown of the amount of electricity produced by generators in New England and imported from other regions to satisfy all residential, commercial, and industrial customer demand from the power grid in 2022.

Total production for the year, known as net energy for load (NEL), amounted to 118,878 gigawatt-hours (GWh). This number was calculated by adding total electricity generation and price-responsive demand reduction within New England to net imports from and exports to neighboring regions, then subtracting the energy used to operate pumped storage power plants. Numbers are preliminary, pending the resettlement process.

Output from solar installations increased by about a third from 2021 to 2022, rising to 3,607 GWh or 3 percent of NEL. That made solar a bigger contributor than refuse, which saw a modest decline in output in 2022. Wind power was relatively steady from year to year at 3 percent of NEL.

Oil played a larger role in 2022 than in 2021, reflecting rising prices for the region’s main energy fuel, natural gas, that made oil more economical at certain times of the year. Oil accounted for 1,844 GWh, or 2 percent of NEL.

The chart below contains a brief breakdown of the resources used to meet NEL in 2022. More detailed information is available on the Resource Mix webpage.


Energy source Energy produced (in gigawatt-hours) Percentage of NEL
Natural gas 53,829 45%
Nuclear 27,386 23%
Net imports 16,780 14%
Hydro 7,734 7%
Wind 3,874 3%
Solar 3,607 3%
Refuse 2,813 2%
Wood 1,897 2%
Oil 1,844 2%
Landfill gas 421 0.4%
Coal 320 0.3%
Other 70 0.06%
Price-responsive demand 43 0.04%
Methane 39 0.03%

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Comment by Dan McKay on February 2, 2023 at 6:34pm

Maine cannot either             THE CHASE TO ZERO CARBON IS FUTILE

Comment by Willem Post on February 2, 2023 at 8:13am

Dan,

NE cannot function without natural gas plants, because those plants are needed to counteract the output ups and downs and absences of heavily subsidized, variable, intermittent wind and solar, which currently are only 6% of the total annual electricity loaded onto the NE HV grid; a mere 6% after about 25 years of Molly-Coddling with huge federal and state subsidies and other financial incentives.

Recent increases in inflation, energy and scarce materials prices will increase the turnkey capital cost of wind and solar by at least 25% for future systems, even more of an increase for battery systems

NE has the worst wind conditions, except for the South, in the US, and the worst solar conditions, except for the cloudy, rainy Washington State, in the US, plus the installed capital cost of NE wind and solar is the highest in the US, $/MW, per US EIA, which means the cost of wind and solar electricity is the highest in the US.

Having even more wind and solar in New England would be disastrous from an overall economics aspect, going forward.

It is like giving free alcohol to a drunk.

It is like tying a stone around your waste before swimming

The only people who benefit are the rich in their luxurious enclaves, and the deluded/bought politicians, and the European wind industry, with every one else being screwed again.

Comment by Dan McKay on February 2, 2023 at 6:00am

The chart below contains a brief breakdown of the resources used to meet NEL in 2021. More detailed information is available on the Resource Mix webpage.


Energy Source Energy Produced (in gigawatt-hours) Percentage of NEL
Natural Gas 54,227 46%
Nuclear 27,074 23%
Net Imports 18,718 16%
Hydro 7,345 6%
Wind 3,611 3%
Refuse 2,984 3%
Solar 2,648 2%
Wood 2,416 2%
Coal 559 0.5%
Landfill Gas 435 0.4%
Oil 228 0.2%
Other 43 0.04%
Methane 39 0.03%
Price-Responsive Demand 31 0.03%
Comment by Dan McKay on February 1, 2023 at 6:18pm

Why would Massachusetts pay 100% for the billion dollar NECEC line, but only 40% of the County billion dollar transmission line? 

Maybe they realize 100% capacity factor for Hydro Quebec Power is superior to 25% capacity factor wind. 

Comment by Willem Post on February 1, 2023 at 3:28pm

Long Islander,

Therefore, NE needs much more storage capacity for natural gas and fuel oil near power plants

Comment by Long Islander on February 1, 2023 at 11:26am

NY and Mass won't permit new natural gas lines which would bring natural gas to Maine. Yet our scummy PUC does deals with Mass on wind.

Comment by Willem Post on February 1, 2023 at 8:25am

The DOMESTIC natural gas from Pennsylvania is a NE life saver. Without that gas, NE would be in deep do do.

NE needs much  more nat gas and fuel oil storage capacity near power plants to minimize risks of blackouts on cold days

Nat gas prices will settle down this year, if Biden does not increase exports to Europe.
Let Europe get its own gas from where ever and whomever.

The NE nat gas plants counteract the ups and downs and absences of wind and solar, on a minute by minute basis, 24/7/365, year after year, while also supplying plentiful electricity to NE.

Super expensive, short life battery systems are not required.

Expensive, highly visible, HVDC transmission lines to Canada are not required.
Why be dependent on Canadians?

Expensive wind and solar build outs are not required, because CO2 is a very minor global warming gas compared to water vapor, which has 80 to 100 times more influence regarding global warming than CO2

 

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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

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"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."

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