Posted on 10/30/2023 3:48:11 PM PDT by CFW
California’s buildout of wind and solar farms is exceeding the ability of its grid to handle all the electricity during periods of high production and low demand.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Monday that curtailments, which is when wind and solar farms are deliberately shut down, increased to peak levels in 2023.
The California Independent System Operator, which operates the electricity grid for much of the state, has steadily curtailed the amount of electricity from wind and solar farms that flows through its system.
The decreases appear to be situational, not a steady process, and are the result of the state not having enough power lines to carry all the electricity produced by wind and solar farms, the EIA report stated.
These curtailments, for example, typically reach their peak in spring, when the weather is mild and demand on the grid is low.
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Yes. Because that’s what’s happening here. 🙄
Oh Hawaii they maintain rusty old windmills that are not connected to anything just so they can show off their wind power prowess...
Never underestimate the incompetence of leftists attempting to come even near real science.
Everything is great in californication. Yep, it’s great there.
There has to be something to keep the californians in california. We don’t want them polluting the rest of the nation with their politics. Maybe a wall?
So these clowns built solar and wind farms, but didn’t lay enough electric wire to use them? They should be shutting off natgas and other carbon and switching over to these renewables when they are generating the most... I mean, that was the entire purpose! As unreliable and untested as it is, they could at least get this much right. Government.
“Californian’s will soon be sitting in the dark each night...”
Who couldn’t see that one coming.
Get us off oil, then get rid of all the green stuff.
Then we can starve in the cold and dark.
Leftists are just incompetent in general.
Time to tear down reserve capacity power plants I see.
Someone missed the information that solar and wind power is actually batteries.
Old: Will the Last Person Leaving California Please Turn Off the Lights?
New: They’re already off. Power outages.
And will refuse to hook up line power to your house if you have solar panels on it.
California’s buildout of wind and solar farms is exceeding the ability of its grid to handle all the electricity during periods of high production and low demand.
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Electricity doesn’t work that way. Go back to school then get back to us.
“Never underestimate the incompetence of leftists attempting to come even near real science.”
I don’t see any incompetence, all I see from the Left is GENIUS. They’re about to send the West into the Stone Age, and most in the West have been brainwashed by the Left to think it’s a good thing.
Rolling blackouts in “red state” Tennessee.
“Leftists are just incompetent in general.”
They look VERY COMPETENT to me. They HATE Western wealth, and they’ve effectively take over our system to put an end to that wealth. They are far more competent than our side, as we figured they would eventually ‘grow up’. The problem for us was that had already grown up as far as they were concerned.
Not to worry, EV to the rescue.
I’ve been calling it “techno feudalism” for at least 3 years.
They want the glory days of the elites, while the rest of us are serfs.
They won’t give the tech up, and they’ll use it to supress the serfs, hence the techno part.
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