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Because it is clear who is paying for the additional wind generation, it is not clear who is going to pay for the mostly unused backup base generation.
by Paradigma11 4y ago
Because it is clear who is paying for the additional wind generation, it is not clear who is going to pay for the mostly unused backup base generation.
- Gasp0de 4y agoIn Germany, we (via the grid operators) literally pay these power plants just for providing backup capacity. Another idea could be paying companies to stop consuming power in times of high demand. Things like cold storage facilities can easily shift their power consumption by a few hours.
- juve1996 4y agoWhich is why the Texas model fails in this scenario. It's unprofitable to have emergency backup load, so it doesn't get built.
- bequanna 4y agoBingo. "Emergency Base Load" isn't a thing and would never make financial sense.
- supernovae 4y agoThe reason Texas has failed is because this state is a state of excess and they’re proud of fact. If we incentivized efficiency we’d be much better off but instead we champion mocking that as something Californian.
- EricE 4y agoCA is actually facing rolling blackouts for exactly the same reasons, yet it's always amusing that TX only ever seems to get talked about here :p
- deskamess 4y agoCA had a blackout for non-safety (fire) issues recently?
- mrguyorama 4y agoCA's system has issues because it is a 100% captured monopoly and have utterly refused to fix problems that were identified by Enron in the 90s. Meanwhile, 48 more states in the union have a variety of significantly more or less regulated energy sectors than either Texas or California and how many of them have rolling blackouts every year? I don't know why people keep pretending Texas's and California's problems are anything more than the stupidity, or willfull negligence of their respective governments.