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> Yes, but please keep things in context. We're transitioning away from baseload, but it's a major endeavor and not going to happen over night. I think the HN c
by cycomanic 3y ago
> Yes, but please keep things in context. We're transitioning away from baseload, but it's a major endeavor and not going to happen over night. I think the HN crowd is a little overzealous in this area. NERC is reporting the potential for energy shortages in many regions in the United States. This was once virtually unheard of.
What do you mean? Do you recall Enron? Also when I was living in Tennessee for a year in the 90s brown outs occurred at least a couple of times and some of my US friends tell me about interrupted power happening quite regularly still. I'd call that energy shortage.
- 7thaccount 3y agoEnron was a special case when California first started their electricity market and made many mistakes in not having processes to take care of market manipulation. An entity deliberately and unethically putting a generator on outage to drive prices up is not what I'm referring to. I'm saying the reserve margins of baseload generation have shrunk.