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Saying that this is regulation / environmentalist caused is only looking at half of the picture. You could just as easily say that this is caused by greed and
by NathanKP 3y ago
Saying that this is regulation / environmentalist caused is only looking at half of the picture.
You could just as easily say that this is caused by greed and the desire for more profits. Wind power is extremely cheap (almost half the cost per megawatt hour compared to fossil fuel). So utilities are actually making more money when they sell their customers wind power. Where is the profit margin going? Not back into the infrastructure, that's for sure.
In every major outage the true cause is utility companies not investing back into making sure that their infrastructure is resilient. That includes resiliency against wind power going offline, such as building battery storage, gravity power storage, etc.
- maerF0x0 3y agoYes, and regulation prevents them for charging the true cost for peak/constrained energy demand (except in texas where you can get a $16,752 for running your lights) Naturally theres a wide spectrum of options between fixed prices and dynamic pricing that leads to shocking results.
- nradov 3y agoYour comment is completely unrealistic. The battery supply chain doesn't produce enough for grid scale storage. It will be many years until that is practical. Gravity power storage holds promise, but outside of a few limited pumped hydroelectric facilities it remains unproven.
- ceejayoz 3y ago> The battery supply chain doesn't produce enough for grid scale storage. It didn't produce enough for widespread smartphone adoption, either. Until it was needed.
- nradov 3y agoYou've got to be kidding. The quantities needed for grid scale storage are orders of magnitude larger than smartphones. We are up against fundamental supply chain limits. Production can be ramped up but that will be a slow process.