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Anthony William Sloman
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On Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 9:01:15 PM UTC+10, amdx wrote:
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But if they have to burn expensive fossil carbon to supply high volume consumers they would charge more for that extra current.
Because the solar cells and the wind turbines generate power cheaply, they will sell as much of that as they can.
If the greenies had persuaded them to over-invest in cheap renewable generation, they wouldn\'t need to charge high volume consumers more for consuming more power, so presumably they haven\'t. In fact it takes time and money to buy and install new generating plant, and while the old fossil-carbon fueled year is still working it makes sense to squeeze it for some last dregs of output, particularly when the sun isn\'t shining and the wind isn\'t blowing. If they hadn\'t invested much - so far - in pumped storage and grid-scale batteries, they wouldn\'t have a lot of choice.
The greenies have been less vocal about pumped storage and grid batteries, which is bit silly, but the argument for that investment is less obvious, and people like Gnatguy can\'t understand it at all.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
On 9/12/2022 7:28 AM, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 9:44:14 PM UTC+10, amdx wrote:
On 9/11/2022 9:04 PM, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2022 at 9:50:57 AM UTC+10, amdx wrote:
On 8/26/2022 2:58 AM, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 4:39:44 PM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 10:09:27 PM UTC-7, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 2:20:39 PM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 9:01:47 PM UTC-7, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 12:57:03 PM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
On Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 5:45:17 PM UTC-7, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 9:39:26 AM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
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Bill, according to the EIA Us Energy Information Administration Solar
from large and small scale production has increased 22% a year since
2015 to 2021. Sounds great, until you look at the drop in production
from other sources. Coal, Petroleum liquids, Petroleum Coke, Nuclear and
other gases have all fallen in their electric generation. Wind
production is thrown in with all renewables and new easily figured out,
but I believe it provide a bit more than solar. Natural gas is up, but
has only grown 2.4% a year, the last 7 years. In those 7 years total
electric production has only grown 0.9%, not per year, but for all 7
years!!!
Electricity is generated when it is needed, and only as much as is needed. There is a bit of pumped storage and we are starting to see some investment in grid scale batteries, but they are used to buffer short term difference i supply and demand - over hours not weeks.
So what you are complaining about is cheap renewable generation being used rather than more expensive alternative supplies.
Why US energy demand has been more or less static since about 2000 isn\'t clear. The fact that the US has off-shored a lot of it\'s manufacturing to China since them may come into it.
No wonder we have rolling brownouts. Where is the power to
charge those mandated electric vehicles going to come from?
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_1_01
You will just have to build even more solar farms and wind turbines. It isn\'t difficult or all that expensive.
The greenies have really put us in a bind.
It isn\'t the greenies who have made renewable electricity generation cheaper than any other source of electric power, and moving your electricity generation system to relying on the cheapest source of power isn\'t putting you in any kind of bind. Not investing enough in new generators and not adjusting the transmission grid to handle to the new generators is putting you in a bind, but the greenies can\'t be blamed for that.
If it\'s cheaper, why did I recently have a 38% increase in my electricity rate for anything over 1000kWhs?
Half of my electricity bill covers the cost of the grid that delivers it.
If your utility company hasn\'t invested enough in the grid that supplies you they may be slugging high volume users in the hope of getting them to consume less , and devoting the extra money to beefing up the grid between you and the place where that cheap extra power is being generated.
It isn\'t just the cost of generating the power - you are also paying for the cost of transporting from where it is generated to you.
My bill has a breakout \'ENERGY CHARGE\' category. Since January it has a
28.7% increase for any use over 1000kWhs. While the \'NON FUEL ENERGY CHARGE\'
has only increased 9.3% for any use over 1000kWhs. The bill states,\"The
fuel charge represents the cost of fuel used to generate
electricity. It is a direct pass-through to customers, FPL does not
profit from fuel.\"
But if they have to burn expensive fossil carbon to supply high volume consumers they would charge more for that extra current.
Because the solar cells and the wind turbines generate power cheaply, they will sell as much of that as they can.
If the greenies had persuaded them to over-invest in cheap renewable generation, they wouldn\'t need to charge high volume consumers more for consuming more power, so presumably they haven\'t. In fact it takes time and money to buy and install new generating plant, and while the old fossil-carbon fueled year is still working it makes sense to squeeze it for some last dregs of output, particularly when the sun isn\'t shining and the wind isn\'t blowing. If they hadn\'t invested much - so far - in pumped storage and grid-scale batteries, they wouldn\'t have a lot of choice.
The greenies have been less vocal about pumped storage and grid batteries, which is bit silly, but the argument for that investment is less obvious, and people like Gnatguy can\'t understand it at all.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney