2023 NERC Long-Term Reliability Assessment

https://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/ra/Reliability Assessments DL/NERC_LTRA_2023.pdf



Well this isn't surprising, but a little depressing.

 

"hold my beer" comes to mind...

 

The wife and I were chatting the other day (we work for the same organization...she is just further up the food chain than I) and some mention about being a "smart grid city" where the local utility company would have control of your thermostat AND if you have an EV total control of that as well. What the end goal would be is to use the EV's for peak shaving (high demand peak hours). So let's say your EV is plugged in and charging. The battery is at 80%. Now the time of day is around peak electrical demand and the grid needs power. Well, now they have control of your charging system and discharges the battery to 40% while sitting in your garage. Sure hope one doesn't need to go anywhere significantly. The problem I see here:

-The obvious is left with a lower battery charge. This could be very inconvenient due to some EV's have a 205 mile range (unlike most Tesla vehicles).
-How does one get paid back for the usage of the battery power?
-Added cycling of the battery...who pays for the loss in battery life? (hint...the owner)

 

I agree and once it's found to be too late it will be actually "too late" for a while.

 

People will have to update home services as well. In most cases, this isn't a 1500.00 job.

 

This does help with demand and of course your pocket book once the panels pay for themselves (depending on how you build or buy the panels). You also have to live in an area with high production. Lucky for you, your city has 210 days per year that is sunny/partially overcast (under 30%). Solar makes sense for you if it can be purchased reasonably. If you have the property, I would put it on racks at ground level.

 

No kidding? Damn.

 

He is probably just wanting the credits so when he does charge, it goes against his credits and not an added bill.

 

Even with 250 days of sun here at my place (sure doesn't feel like it!!!) it doesn't make sense unless I build it myself and pay it off from day one. With enough production and maintenance (washing the panels/keeping snow off) they should pay for themselves in around 8 years. I have an acquaintance from CA that moved close to us that built solar systems (large units) and he said that is the way to go. Renting them and paying 30K+ for a simple system is nuts. My electric bill is around 130.00 a month now with the hot tub (40.00 of it is hot tub). Once I replace my windows again the efficiency to my home will go back up.

 

I have a gas 6 burner cooktop and gas grill on the outdoor kitchen area.

 

Interesting enough the organization I work for just put in for 1500 MW of power. 365 MW is gas. We were hoping to build another combined cycle with bypass stacks but that gets shot down by the governors office. So looks like a bunch of peakers (LM6000's) to match the demand. Bad thing is we don't have the natural gas pipelines in CO to accommodate the need. Hopefully we can get some more pipelines down from Wyoming.

So we have to rely on a little bit of hydro's we have (and this is for water demand, not power demand), solar, and wind. Last week we had amazing wind power that averaged out to 3800+ MW's (out of ~4900 MW possible). Tonight we haven't seen over 300MW of wind and right now is 79 MW out of 4900 MW. Power is a little tighter tonight.

 

Peakers are simple cycle turbines for fast response.

We have six LM2500's (27 MW at this elevation), two frame 6 GE turbines (33 MW each).

 

Damn Brody...moving up in the world.

The nuclear world is a whole different game isn't it? One of my electricians worked at that plant. Great money but a pain to get anything done.

 

Well 1300MW isn't small either. Considering our biggest hydro is 28MW...