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I was surprised to see the article specifically call out deficiencies at night as a major concern! Maybe they do maintenance at night and thats why they don't

by EricE 4y ago

I was surprised to see the article specifically call out deficiencies at night as a major concern! Maybe they do maintenance at night and thats why they don't have excess capacity as one would normally expect?

bombcar 4y ago
If the heat is high enough, A/C runs all night, and if the amount of peaking power plants is down, then they could lose enough capacity overnight to make it still a problem. If someone wants to dig into it, here's the data: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx