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Post by nautonnier on Aug 10, 2019 18:39:19 GMT
This is what should be done. Contracts with subsidy farmers should REQUIRE a particular amount of stable power. If they cannot provide that all from their subsidy farm then it is up to them to have a backup generation capability that provides that contracted amount of stable power. It is not up to the grid to cope with the intermittency of subsidy farm power output. "Australian Government Sues Wind Farm Operators Over the 2016 South Australian Blackout
Energy regulator launches legal action against wind farm operators over SA statewide blackout
The AER has brought these proceedings to send a strong signal to all energy businesses about the importance of compliance with performance standards to promote system security and reliability,” AER chair Paula Conboy said in a statement.
“These alleged failures contributed to the black system event, and meant that AEMO [Australian Energy Market Operator] was not fully informed when responding to system-wide failures in South Australia in September 2016.
The blackout occurred on September 28, 2016, when extreme weather — described at the time as “twin tornadoes” — caused major damage to electricity infrastructure, knocking down huge transmission lines.
The AER said a subsequent loss of wind generation then triggered the blackout, which left 850,000 customers without power."
If wind farms cannot be made more resilient against severe weather or instability caused by grid component failures, and if we assume for the sake of argument that future climate change will bring more severe weather and disruption and damage to infrastructure, there probably isn’t a lot of point building wind farms.wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/10/australian-government-sues-wind-farm-operators-over-the-2016-south-australian-blackout/
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Post by Ratty on Aug 11, 2019 0:34:52 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 13, 2019 12:15:26 GMT
"Boris Johnson’s government is shuffling towards a gigantic cliff edge which has nothing to do with Brexit. The looming disaster can be summed up in one word: renewables. The clue came in the form of the widespread power cuts that Britain experienced at the end of last week. A million people were affected, with rail services disrupted and passengers stuck on trains for many hours.
Quickly the Establishment propaganda machine cranked into gear. This was, a National Grid spokesman told us, a “very, very rare event”. Also, he reassured us — classic distraction technique, this — there was “no malicious intent or cyberattack involved.”
OK then. So what did cause this blackout which, as Richard North rightly says here, was a national “disgrace” and “the sort of thing we expect in train-wreck economies such as Venezuela”? Well the current official answer is “We don’t know, pending an inquiry.” Unofficially, though, it’s bleeding obvious. Britain’s National Grid — and by extension the nation’s electricity supply — has been horribly compromised by the dash for renewable energy. The more unreliables — wind turbines, especially — are added to the grid, the more unstable the system will become.
Friday’s power cuts, far from being a freak event, are merely a taste of worse to come. That’s because brownouts and blackouts aren’t a bug of electricity systems heavily dependent on renewable energy. They’re a feature. And it’s not as though wiser heads haven’t been saying this for years. Christopher Booker, for example, writing in 2009, described successive governments’ embrace of wind energy as “the maddest thing that has happened in our lifetime.”
He wrote: Let us be clear: Britain is facing an unprecedented crisis. Before long, we will lose 40 per cent of our generating capacity. And unless we come up quickly with an alternative, the lights WILL go out."More here: www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/12/delingpole-boris-johnsons-looming-wind-disaster/
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 13, 2019 17:22:14 GMT
This will be a close run thing. "UK pledges ÂŁ32m to test small modular nuclear reactors
They are smaller than conventional reactors and are designed so a majority of the plant can be built in a factory and transported to site for construction The UK Government has announced it will be providing ÂŁ32 million for businesses to test small modular nuclear reactors and bring them to market.
The Advanced Manufacturing and Construction Programme will allow companies to bid for a share of the funding and help them commercialise the technology, which could “radically reduce” the costs associated with the nuclear industry.
SMRs are smaller than conventional nuclear power station reactors and are designed so a majority of the plant can be built in a factory and transported to site for construction.
Developers will also be invited to submit design proposals to identify potential risks with proposals early on, in an effort to reduce investment risks for potential backers."www.energylivenews.com/2018/11/06/uk-pledges-32m-to-test-small-modular-nuclear-reactors/
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 18, 2019 20:21:24 GMT
"National Grid had evidence that the shift to renewable energy was putting Britain's electricity supply at risk months before the biggest blackout in a decade, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The company, which is responsible for keeping the lights on, has downplayed the role of wind energy in the power cut that caused widespread chaos earlier this month. John Pettigrew, chief executive of the FTSE 100 firm, described the outage as a 'once-in-30-years' event and said there was 'nothing to indicate there is anything to do with the fact that we are moving to more wind or more solar'.
Yet in April, National Grid published research warning that using more renewable power sources posed a threat to the network's 'stability'. In a report based on a ÂŁ6.8 million research project, National Grid admitted that renewables increased the 'unpredictability and volatility' of the power supply which 'could lead to faults on the electricity network'. The revelations come as energy regulator Ofgem and the Government continue to investigate the causes of the blackout. A report due out this week is expected to show the outage was caused by a series of failures, including a lightning strike which led to the almost simultaneous shutdown of two power stations"www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-7367413/Renewable-energy-blackout-risk-warns-National-Grid-outage.html
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 20, 2019 11:32:18 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Aug 20, 2019 12:36:07 GMT
an “extremely rare and unexpected event” Like snow?
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 21, 2019 11:52:30 GMT
"Lightning strike DID cause mass power cuts before new German-built trains repeatedly shut down bringing chaos to the railways, official report reveals
Thousands of rail passengers were delayed after issues with Class 700 and 717 Siemens trains built in Krefeld operated by Thameslink in South East England Half of the trains required an engineer to reset them after issues on August 9 Revelations in today's report from National Grid Electricity System Operator "www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7375255/German-built-trains-caused-carnage-railways-power-cuts.html
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 23, 2019 11:52:49 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 23, 2019 20:47:34 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 28, 2019 21:44:09 GMT
"Chuck DeVore: 'Green New Deal' preview? Texas town's lofty environmentalism leaves residents with a nightmare
Trouble started when politicians’ promise of cheaper renewable energy was mugged by reality.
Georgetown’s electric bills went up as more wind and solar power displaced cheaper natural gas in the power portfolio of the Georgetown’s municipal utility. Politicians scrambled for cover. And the bloom came off Georgetown’s renewable rose.
Now, largely embarrassed members of the City Council are trying to figure out how to unwind the renewable mess they and their predecessors voted themselves into.
With their municipal utility facing a $7 million shortfall – money that has to be made up by the city residents through higher electricity costs – the City Council voted 5-1 in July to instruct the staff to figure out how to wriggle out of the Bloomberg PR deal."www.foxnews.com/opinion/green-new-deal-preview-texas-town-environmentalism-chuck-devore
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 29, 2019 15:55:28 GMT
So I am sitting here with around 48 hours to a power failure - hurricanes do that, so do earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and a myriad of smaller things I tend to keep my cars at least 50% full and if a known power failure like Dorian's visit I fill more standby jerrycans to provide power for the generator.
It struck me that the owners of electric vehicles are in a world of hurt at these times. They cannot store fuel - I could drive from here to DC non-stop in the Jeep on the fuel I have - but every 150 miles or so the electric vehicle needs a power point for a few hours, and one of the first things to go with hurricanes/earthquakes etc is the power. The interstates will be full of bricks that cannot even be towed but need to be put on a breakdown truck and taken to a working power point.
How very short sighted.
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Post by acidohm on Aug 29, 2019 16:34:08 GMT
So I am sitting here with around 48 hours to a power failure - hurricanes do that, so do earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and a myriad of smaller things I tend to keep my cars at least 50% full and if a known power failure like Dorian's visit I fill more standby jerrycans to provide power for the generator. It struck me that the owners of electric vehicles are in a world of hurt at these times. They cannot store fuel - I could drive from here to DC non-stop in the Jeep on the fuel I have - but every 150 miles or so the electric vehicle needs a power point for a few hours, and one of the first things to go with hurricanes/earthquakes etc is the power. The interstates will be full of bricks that cannot even be towed but need to be put on a breakdown truck and taken to a working power point. How very short sighted. Mass evacuation is impossible with a high population of EV'S. Everyone would get a certain distance, then what. Ratty would just run i think?
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Post by mondeoman on Aug 29, 2019 19:13:32 GMT
The law of unintended (maybe?) consequences...
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 29, 2019 20:25:08 GMT
The law of unintended (maybe?) consequences... The 'smart meters' here in Florida, if you 'opt in' for a few dollars paid to you from the power company, can be used to switch off high load devices like pool pumps, refrigerators, air conditioners, for short (they say imperceptible) periods if demand exceeds supply. It is not clear to me how they do that with a standard distribution board but apparently they can. However, I would imagine that they could decide that they don't like you using your electric car - so it won't charge at home or at a public recharge point. Don't tell me politicians have not thought of that. The poison dwarf currently London's mayor is having 'car free days' at vast cost. It would be really easy to stop charging for a week on all electric vehicles that had been driven into or within London in the last 6 months. I imagine tolls could be collected by setting the electricity charge higher if you have been in 'restricted zones' It is also of course inline with the intent of Agenda 21 of conurbations with very limited travel between them. Got to end now - off to clean my tinfoil hat
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