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The Go Green folks are living a lie. The windmills are producing a little over half the power in Texas today though. Makes it hard for reliable power operators to make money.
 
Lucky said:
The Go Green folks are living a lie. The windmills are producing a little over half the power in Texas today though. Makes it hard for reliable power operators to make money.
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Last I checked is was like 20 something percent. There is more wind than coal now. Our majority is natural gas fired power plants.
Here is a link
https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=TX
 
Lucky said:
The Go Green folks are living a lie. The windmills are producing a little over half the power in Texas today though. Makes it hard for reliable power operators to make money.
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I heard from a board member of ERTOC that renewable energy devices make up 30% of the Texas grid and only produces 1.5% of the energy, we are not ready for renewable energy at that rate. I live in Texas
 
Looking like total wind is 20,647 MW and total grid is 38,220MW today. Could be wrong though.
 
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As was said on another thread China,India and Russia are not going Green. Look at the carbon footprint of a solar farm as well. Manufacturing all the frames and panels, construction and destroying thousands of acres of forest to build. Get all bent out of shape over the rainforest being cut for agricultural production but don’t bat an eye over knocking down acre after acre for solar farms, condos and retail space. I guess Amazon will just sell us fresh air instead of the Amazon making it for free.
 
It was around 20% the day I checked, but my understanding it's not the same percentage all of the time (depends on wind, demand and other factors) and can be 10% to 40%.
 
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Not sure why he would say that, scratching my head
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I might be off some but Texas has around 28,000 MW of wind and a total capacity of around 125,000 MW total. The wind and solar aren’t reliable or predictable. Somedays it barely makes anything and other days its kicking along good then just takes a nose dive in the middle of the day. The wind turbines are also spread out so not all of them will produce power. Not sure how much solar is available but it’s less reliable than wind. I do know a 20,000 + acre solar farm is going in down the road from me. I believe it will only produce 2,000 or so MW at it’s peak. Of the other 100,000 MW available only around 65-70,000 is clean efficient power. I’m thinking a 68 -70,000 MW load in the heat of the summer is about all ERCOT wants. ERCOT could fix the renewable deal by requiring wind and solar farms to install “peakers” capable of replacing the MW load they produce at full capacity when the wind and solar are needed but not available or by doing away with the 20% cap. Sorry for the long post and feel free to correct me on any of this.
 
Lucky said:
I might be off some but Texas has around 28,000 MW of wind and a total capacity of around 125,000 MW total. The wind and solar aren’t reliable or predictable. Somedays it barely makes anything and other days its kicking along good then just takes a nose dive in the middle of the day. The wind turbines are also spread out so not all of them will produce power. Not sure how much solar is available but it’s less reliable than wind. I do know a 20,000 + acre solar farm is going in down the road from me. I believe it will only produce 2,000 or so MW at it’s peak. Of the other 100,000 MW available only around 65-70,000 is clean efficient power. I’m thinking a 68 -70,000 MW load in the heat of the summer is about all ERCOT wants. ERCOT could fix the renewable deal by requiring wind and solar farms to install “peakers” capable of replacing the MW load they produce at full capacity when the wind and solar are needed but not available or by doing away with the 20% cap. Sorry for the long post and feel free to correct me on any of this.
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My SIL runs a large power plant so I hear about what’s in the loop today.
I had four large power plants in the refinery, before retiring in 07 I just thought regulations were bad.
 
Dave said:
Not so much per wind mill. The Hydro power is huge and cheap. The reason the PNW has low electric costs.
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Yeah, all those wonderful hydro electric plants would NEVER have a chance of being built today... not "environmentally friendly" at all, because of the impact to the fish, etc. Washington Palouse/Moses Lake region would be a desert.
 

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