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Electric grid issues, nuclear energy, renewable energy, capacity markets and more. By Meredith Angwin #RTOs #grid #nuclear #electricity

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Meredith Angwin
4 years
What used to be yes_VY is now @MeredithAngwin . I don’t tweet about Vermont Yankee much nowadays. Mostly, I tweet about other energy issues and about the grid. I realized it was time for a change.
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Re-opening Three Mile Island Unit 1 is a very good idea. Although Unit 2 melted in 1979 with no casualties, Unit 1 continued to supply reliable power until 2019. Most people don't know this. TMI 1 was closed for financial reasons, not safety.
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Grid Expert: Replacing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant with Renewables 'Can’t Be Done' Excellent article. Please retweet!
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Grids used to be designed so that no power plant was more than 10% of peak load. If one plant went off-line suddenly, the grid was still strong, since it had a reserve margin (extra plants available) of 20%. Solar acts like a megaplant that all goes offline at the same time.
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An absolute must to understand - the question is how many politicians and activists pushing renewables do.
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An update this morning on the Northeastern grid. Wind has died down, still cold here (minus 7 where I live) sunny. Lots of oil on the grid (25%), but renewables down to 8%, mostly due to lack of wind.
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Germany sells low (extra electricity from wind when there's a glut) and buys high (from the neighbors when the wind is not available). Not a recommended strategy for prosperity. 😉
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@AdamBlazowski Germany is also exporting a lot of wind and solar power, when there is excess. So considering that the systemic net loss is even worse.
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Thanks for this mention and praise!
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13/ In her excellent book “Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid,” @MeredithAngwin describes how a combination of bad policy, complicated governance, and dense bureaucracy has made the electric grid of New England incredibly vulnerable to collapse.
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@kirstygogan Clearly, climate change is not an “existential threat.” It’s better than using nuclear energy, right? Since climate change is not a big threat, we should stop holding expensive international meetings about it. /sarcasm
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Is the anti-nuclear debate actually about nuclear, or about energy, or something else? Emmet Penney found this gem from the old days. (Spoiler. The debate is really about Malthus.)
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US solar farms are aging. Is it time to begin repowering? Inverters are failing more quickly than expected. Many inverter manufacturers went out of business. Therefore, getting an inverter that fits may also be challenging. via @UtilityDive
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The decision to close Indian Point nuclear plant was a travesty. At the time, @pwrhungry wrote some great posts about the importance of Indian Point for grid reliability. @GridBrief Now, NYC is seeing the consequences of this choice.
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Yes, it is a big question. Where's our example for 100% renewables? (Iceland? We aren't all located at the mid-Atlantic ridge.) @kevindkillough Despite Trillion Dollar Spending For 100% Renewable Energy, It’s Yet To Be Proven On Citywide Scale
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New power plants have to pay for grid system upgrades that they need. A wind farm objected. FERC just ruled for the grid operator SPP. The wind farm must pay. DC Circuit Finds for SPP in Wind Farm Dispute //www.rtoinsider.com/83686-dc-appeals-court-ruling-spp-wind-tenaska/
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Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that Greenpeace is sexist nowadays. They are anti-human and prejudiced against women and poor people. It saddens me, though. I remember giving money to Greenpeace. A long time ago....
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Tyrone Dlisle
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Paul Dorfman continues his sexism. Grace Stanke is a nuclear engineer, the fact she is also Miss America doesn't deminish her expertise. Why do @Greenpeace feel it's acceptable to continue funding such terrible behaviour?
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Closing Indian Point and building thousands of acres of renewables in Upstate. Many people (including me) think this is not a good deal for New York.
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Experts say 50 million miles of new power lines needed for green energy, and that may be impossible. Building all those power lines is certainly impossible in the time frame in which they are supposed to be built! via @JustTheNews
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I write about energy, but I obsess about Ukraine! I don’t have any special expertise, so I have been shy to write. That said: if Germany hadn’t decided to close its nuclear plants and depend on Russian gas, the situation might have been different. Maybe not. But maybe yes.
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We just went up to 20% oil.
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A fine @DoombergT article quoted me about the New England grid. The article was picked up by Zero Hedge! and it is getting great readership on Zero Hedge. Very happy!!
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Was very happy this morning to see such a high rank for "Shorting the Grid."
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Mostly correct, but solar and wind can survive negative grid prices because they receive tax credits and sell pieces of paper called RECs. They are rewarded for their virtue. Virtue is rewarded by $. Virtue is not merely its own reward.
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Pendulum Flow
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Why batteries can't fix the issues with renewable energy explained simply 🪫💔 For solar farms to make money they need electricity to have value during the day. But as solar production increases, prices fall and can even go negative. For batteries to make money from arbitrage
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Oil rules the grid. Grid is stable. Around 6 am In my town in Vermont, minus 14, wind only 5 mph, wind chill still below 25.
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Nuclear helps a grid override small problems before they become big problems.
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Okay. Right now the northeast grid has more oil than nuclear. What happens in cold weather? Some kind of time machine to the 60s? It is minus three out, and the temperature is dropping, so less gas is available. (I know it’s not a time machine.)
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Excellent article by @nukebarbarian on the reasons Germany is shutting its nukes. “The green movement is more interested in reducing energy consumption than in reducing emissions.”
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Minus 2 in my area. Grid is running 44% natural gas, 20% nuclear, 17% oil, 7 % renewables. Of the 75 renewables, 45% is wind.
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Apparently, some anti-nuclear leftists don’t think that the working class should have air conditioning.
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There's a lot that's misleading and flat-out wrong from leftist Joshua Frank about nuclear power and us pronuclear socialists, but wanted to highlight this aggressively moronic statement from him, equating us to the capitalist class:
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Climate activists describe thermal plant performance in Texas as a miserable"Heads I win,Tails you lose" story. Thank you to @GridBrief for this well researched guest post by @Nuclearjunkie . How the Texas grid actually runs.
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California is impoverishing its low-income residents with electricity prices | Opinion @pwrhungry with a detailed look at policy and consequences.
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#nuclear power is the low-carbon firm power that is reliable, dispatchable, and seriously solid during a weather crisis. Nuclear is actually available right now. Do not accept “firm power” substitutes from academic papers. They don't deliver energy. #NuclearEnergy
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California promised to close its last nuclear plant. Now Newsom is reconsidering. Part of his consideration is the possibility of getting federal money....but I will take any reconsideration, for any cause, as a victory!
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I try to be upbeat or at least neutral. But the grid looks like a slow-motion train wreck. I hope not. I live here. I am as subject to the grid as anyone!😟
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Levelized Cost of Energy & the Wind/Solar Magic Accounting Game, by @Mining_Atoms
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Over $2 now
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Why Is New England Paying The Equivalent Of $180 Oil For Natural Gas? via @forbes
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I love SMRs, but I also think that big grids need big power plants. Room for both big ones and SMRs.
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vladan stojanovic
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@Atomicrod @MeredithAngwin @Andrew_Larkins @Smiley_OU69 @EnergyJvd SMRs are way forward and are better from the robustness of the grid point.
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Texas legislature passes bill to make renewables provide their own replacement power. Totally amazing! A new world may be dawning. #Texas #Reliability #Renewables @rtoinsider @pwrhungry
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A PJM coal plant has a Reliability Must Run contract. Sierra Club says: use batteries instead! PJM explains that batteries won't supply reliability. Replacing a Talen Energy coal-fired power plant with battery storage is infeasible: PJM via @UtilityDive
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Shutting down our nuclear plants was part of the problem.
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Joe LaRusso 🔌 🕳🐇
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We’re falling backward in New England, and we’ve squandered half a decade. It’s time to stop talking the happy talk about efforts to reduce the carbon emissions associated with the bulk power system, and time to begin producing material reductions.
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New York is heading for disaster. Next winter, if not this one. Also, please notice the jump in natural gas usage after the Indian Point units closed. Some power markets are scarier than others via @nukebarbarian
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Our grids are becoming expensive and fragile. In this podcast, @pwrhungry and I describe how these changes are affecting grids from Texas to Maine. Natural gas comes under special scrutiny. A preliminary to Bryce’s grid docuseries, which will be released tomorrow on YouTube!
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Robert Bryce
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Check out the latest from The Power Hungry Podcast with @MeredithAngwin
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3 years
Or perhaps keep Diablo Canyon in operation?@
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Mark Chediak
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California is asking the federal government to declare an “electric reliability emergency” so the state can burn more fossil fuels to avoid blackouts via @business
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California PUC proposes adding 11.5 GW of new resources to avoid black outs. Are you surprised that this includes fossil? Are you surprised that they don’t suggest keeping Diablo Canyon(2.3 GW)? Are you surprised at the mealy-mouth “zero-emitting” statements? #Nuclear
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Why grid experts don't speak up about reliability problems. Basically, the buck doesn't stop with them anymore. Quote: Utilities are no longer responsible for ensuring reliability.  They are responsible for compliance with reliability standards.  That was a profound... change.
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New blog post from @rpschussler describes the factors tended to eliminate grid experts from playing any role in the development of policies impacting the grid.
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People don't think of solar as a "megaplant" because it is all over the place: my rooftop, your rooftop, a solar farm near the Interstate. But it acts like a megaplant because it is subject to common mode failure at sunset. All the solar, pretty much at once.
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California to seek firm commitments for electricity this summer to avoid rolling blackouts. The electricity will be generated by mostly-fossil. Sometimes I think that intermittents are just a way to use fossil without admitting you needed fossil in the first place.
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Alex Epstein
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As we head into warmer weather, I am reminded of last summer when LA was cooled by coal. Remember: unreliable wind and solar often deliver the least when power is needed the most. That's why to avoid blackouts CA is reserving extra fossil fuel power this year from other states.
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So renewables are mostly available in spring and not in bad weather? That’s the definition of a fair weather friend.
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Jesse D. Jenkins
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@RichardMeyerDC Yeah pick the US region with probably to lowest renewable penetration level and then look at the winter. Nice. Try ERCOT or CAISO in Spring if you're really interested...
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"Shorting the Grid" was recommended on the Ezra Klein show yesterday! Klein interviewed Robinson Meyer, who founded HeatMap News to cover climate change. (The description of "Shorting" is near the end of this transcription.)
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Tremendously pleased to see “Shorting the Grid” at number one best-seller in its main category at Amazon this morning!
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Meredith Angwin
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Back when I was in geothermal, the Los Alamos Hot Dry Rock project looked very promising. It was the equivalent of "deep geothermal." Interactions of the pumped water with the hot downhole minerals made it impractical. I do not think those problems will be solved very soon.
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Alex Epstein
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Myth: Geothermal energy can soon replace a significant % of fossil fuel use. Truth: Geothermal can’t replace a significant % of fossil fuel use because it requires the rare geology of places like Iceland. “Deep geothermal” has promise, but is decades away from scalability. 🧵👇
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I like the summary sentences here. "Unreliable renewables were only part of the problem. But they are none of the solution.” My “fatal trifecta for a grid” includes depending on too many 1) renewables 2) just-in-time gas 3) electricity imports.
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Alex Epstein
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Learn the full story behind the Texas blackouts and what can be done better at .
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@TheFrackingGuy Of course there’s a German word for the current performance of the wind turbines. Here it is. ManOhManWeWastedALotOfMoney.
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The third leg of the fatal trifecta: overdependence on the neighbors
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@AdamBlazowski @energybants An important aspect of the lesson, to be sure. The assumption of “someone will always have some to share” when it comes to large regional grids is asking for going without.
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@ShellenbergerMD @grantadever As a chemist, I generally doubted that plastics can be recycled, unless there's a big bunch of a single kind of plastic. Which does not happen in home recycling. I have been throwing them in the garbage, not wanting to waste water on cleaning them for ?Recycle?
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Biden’s Wind Power Push Will Threaten An Endangered Whale Species, Gov’t Scientist Says I was quoted here. I try to defend the natural world from the forces that scorn nature, and are only concerned with carbon dioxide. via @dailycaller
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Paying wind farms to not-produce power (paying for curtailment) apparently leads to some exaggerations about what they WOULD have produced. Almost unbelievable. /sarcasm
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Bonnie Brady
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#WindEnergyGrifters The paper states: “The overall wind generation forecast when constraints are imposed is around twice what it is when they are not. However, the total FPN declared by Scottish wind farms is 2.50 times as much in constrained periods, in other words exacerbating
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I started in RE, and in my book I end with saying that my perfect grid would be nuclear for baseload and a mixture of things (including RE) for load following. But with everyone claiming fancy new scenarios for 100% RE, I needed to say that RE alone can’t give us reliability!
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Anshul Gupta
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@FoxGGreen @MeredithAngwin 3/3 Nuclear will have very tough time winning hearts and minds if it poses itself as the enemy of RE. Promote nuclear as a friend of RE if you want to succeed. Like the gas industry, the message should be that "nuclear is essential for RE to succeed."
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My blog post on Memorial Day. Honoring those who served. Honoring the future of our country by not becoming energy-dependent on those who do not wish us well. @pwrhungry @DoombergT @Atomicrod
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Alberta is facing tight electricity supplies. They shut down coal plants and didn’t build nuclear. I love the cartoon in this article.
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3 years
Wow. Number 2 in Energy Policy, sandwiched between two editions of Michael Lewis’ “Fifth Risk.” So pleased!
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@wmscottp @pwrhungry @energybants @Heather_mom4nuk @HargravesRobert No surprise. When electricity is unreliable, people will do what they need to do to get reliable electricity. It's the iron law of electricity, as @pwrhungry says. Power-with-pollution will be chosen, if the other choice is no-power.
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New England grid is running 10% oil, 3% coal, 25 cents per kWh wholesale price. Cold weather! Gas less available than at other times.
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My twitter stream has filled with people debating the virtues of nuclear versus RE and especially debating messaging. One reason that I wrote “Shorting the Grid” is to help people to think about grid reliability, rather than "nuclear yes, nuclear no, solar yes solar no." 1
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Thank you again to reviewers of Shorting the Grid! I never thought I would see the book having more sales than a Michael Lewis book, in the Energy Policy area of Amazon! Thank you!
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New England electricity grid is over 20% oil. Though demand is fairly low. 13GW
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‘No One Died From Radiation At Fukushima’: IAEA Boss Statement Met With Laughter At COP26 via @forbes
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Since a Euro is about $1.05 currently, this is about 6 cents per kWh wholesale price for electricity supplied by new nuclear plants. Pretty darn good, IMHO.
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Robert Rand
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Developer of Estonia's nuclear power plant inks early consumer contracts. 55€/MWhr, up to four 300MW SMRs. 17 preliminary contracts had already been inked. cc: @MeredithAngwin @pwrhungry
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3 years
As a consequence of all this excitement—“Shorting the Grid” is soaring at the Amazon rankings.
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Fascinating thread. I don’t think it’s reasonable to ban natural gas anytime soon. @pwrhungry
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2 years
The natural gas system delivered 3 times more energy during the coldest day of the year than the electric system delivered on the hottest day in 2022.
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An excellent thread about the financial effect of renewables. Plus a link to a thoughtful article. 🙁 Saying “I told you so” isn’t actually much fun. 🙁
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Timothy Wyant
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I found this UtilityDive article about the changing dynamics of big tech and renewable energy to be interesting, and I'll freely admit, a bit infuriating. Everything they're complaining about here was completely predictable. 1/n
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What if Germany had kept its nuclear plants and phased out lignite? What would their grid be like? What carbon intensity? A fascinating thread.
@uraniumpill
Based and Uraniumpilled
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If Germany had NOT shut any reactors after 2011, how would the #Energiewende have fared, and how clean would their grid be today? Would they have managed to, in 2022, generate a single hour of electricity cleaner than France's? Let's dive into some data.🧵
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FERC commissioner Christie on how grids, especially in RTO areas, are heading to catastrophe. Renewables backed up by gas, plus retirement of generators that have fuel on site. Gosh, who coulda predicted this?😉 TY to @HARRYREADMEFile
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HARRY READ ME File
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@MeredithAngwin Meredith, you may find this clip noteworthy as well... 'Catastrophic situation': FERC Commissioner Christie warns America's pow... via @YouTube
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Meredith Angwin
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Oil on the grids this morning. Typical winter weather, 26% oil in New England, 34% dual fuel (oil and gas, at plants that can burn both) in New York. At this time, it’s 25 degrees here. It was colder earlier when I took these screens. But not unprecedented etc.
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Just a note that our power was out for 36 hours. Now it’s back on. Hooray! And thank a lineman!
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It's been hot today, almost 90. (Texans, don't laugh at us, please!) Demand is high on the grid. New England is importing from everywhere (Canada, NY) and also burning some oil.
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It was a long slog for Vogtle, but now our newest power plant is online. The proof of the pudding is in the abundant clean power!
@POWERmagazine
POWER magazine
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Experience POWER keynote speaker @timechols writes about the importance of the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion—not just for Georgia energy customers, but also for the entire U.S. #nuclear power industry.
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In my opinion, climate-change is being used as a scare story, instead of being analyzed as a problem. I like this short video, just because it is moderate. IMO, the rhetoric on both sides of the issue is over-the-top. Yes. I expect lots of angry replies here...
@kiteandkeymedia
Kite & Key Media
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Can you care about the climate without panicking about the climate? The evidence suggests there are actually reasons for optimism. Technological innovation means that many of our biggest fears about climate change may not play out the way we think. Our new video explains...
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This is the third anniversary of the release of “Shorting the Grid.” It has been read and quoted more widely than I could have hoped for. Thank you all! (And it makes a great holiday present, too.)
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@JesseJenkins @pwrhungry @TheFrackingGuy @LinowesLisa @SierraClub @NRDC @USCleanPower @energybants Those MW will turn into how many MWh? And will the MWh be available when the grid needs them? What is the ELCC for this new capacity? Could they make money if PTC went away? I have SO many questiona!
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Meredith Angwin
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“Shorting the Grid” was released approximately a year ago: October 13, 2020. It was top seller in the Natural Gas category at Amazon today (again!) So grateful.
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The history of Point Beach: built in approximately four years and still a great plant, going strong, more than 50 years later.
@Pro_Nuke
WE0209
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On this day in 1970, Point Beach Nuclear Plant Unit 1 went into commercial operation, just about 49 months from groundbreaking (Nov 28, 1966). Here's a rather lengthy thread about the place that was my home away from home for>2 decades.
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Blackouts Are Expected This Summer Due to Biden’s Green Energy Transition This extensively quotes the NERC report. More retirements, less reliable replacements. via @IERenergy
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Thoughtful thread on ERCOT crunch time this summer. Thermal plants actually performed well. Payne digs in and gets the numbers.
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Josh Payne
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The intellectual dishonesty on display with regards to the tight ERCOT conditions is absolutely astounding. I'm seeing multiple energy "experts" highlighting thermal generation outages while completely ignoring the renewable no-shows. Thread:
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Blaming Russia is easy, and somewhat warranted. But blaming the overbuild of renewables is also warranted...but forbidden. In other words, Europe doesn't want to look at is own actions. Big Bad "Energy Producers"
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Meredith Angwin
3 years
People living in or near CA: try to attend this rally to support Diablo Canyon. Keep the nuclear plants operating!
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Meredith Angwin
11 months
Materials. They are real. They aren’t spreadsheets. Excellent thread about making aluminum metal.
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Jacob L Brown
11 months
*Metal decarbonization* is essential for deep decarbonization. Electrolysis is an elegant solution and is now being pursued for decarbonizing ironmaking and other industrial processes. However, aluminum is already electrolytic and is still stubbornly CO2 intense. Why? 🧵(1/19)
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Meredith Angwin
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This is true, but I think they are mixing the treated water with seawater before discharge, and drinking seawater is not recommended. If you can grab some of the tritiated water before seawater mixing, though, it would be safe to drink.
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Jeremy Gordon
1 year
Imagine camping at the #Fukushima plant and sucking the scary water straight out of the discharge pipe. You could chug a liter per day for 15 days straight before you hit the radiation dose that you get from a banana smoothie. It's not 'treated water'. It's clean water.
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@MeredithAngwin
Meredith Angwin
4 months
AEP, Exelon challenge PJM interconnection pact for Amazon data center at Talen nuclear plant If you build a data center near a nuclear plant (co-located) or you build a nuclear plant near a data center, do you have to pay for the rest of the grid? via
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Meredith Angwin
3 years
We need incentives for reliability. Not for “flexibility.” Translation of “flexibility” is “redundant fast response gas plants with just-in-time gas delivery.”
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Jeff Dennis
3 years
The modernizing power mkts next step is unknown, but could be action to increase incentives for/compensation of flexibility, which Chair Glick hinted recently might be coming. Two MASSIVE issues for the future of clean energy w/ concurrent comment periods. RIP to my sleep. 2/2
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Meredith Angwin
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@UDepravity @Atomicrod Inexpensive batteries could mean that “baseload” nuclear plants could do it all, without being load-followers themselves. We only hear of batteries as filling-in for renewables, but there is another paradigm for their use.
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