Wind droughts are the fundamental problem. The Energy Bad Boys are right onto this and awareness is growing, not before time because the Autralians Anton Lang and the Paul Miskelly group described the wind drought problem over a decade ago ,but nobody took any notice. There was more conventional power in the system so the variable input …
Wind droughts are the fundamental problem. The Energy Bad Boys are right onto this and awareness is growing, not before time because the Autralians Anton Lang and the Paul Miskelly group described the wind drought problem over a decade ago ,but nobody took any notice. There was more conventional power in the system so the variable input didn’t really matter and people didn’t notice what was going on, like the frog in the saucepan.
It is scandalous that the meteorologists never said anything about wind droughts and the wind policy planners never asked. Now we know that windmills should never have been connected to the grid.
Last Summer in CTX and mostly all of TX and OK, we had multiple "HEAT DOMES". The renewables press highlighted in early July that the renewables saved texas power generation over. The real truth is that wind generation doesn't operate in extreme heat - NO WIND, my neighbors Generac's natural gas generators fired up and we stayed out of electricity a couple of times in 106+, once for 20 hrs during a 106 day, this year I'll spend any blackouts with a neighbor. The state of Texas is an independent energy state run by ERCOT, as an isolated Power Grid all Heat Waves requires all energy sources to operate at max and during the summer months. Further, Texas wind power output tends to hit its seasonal lows during the summer due to lower wind speeds, so total clean power generation may actually approach its annual low just as total power demand hits its highs. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/slow-clean-power-generation-growth-hits-texas-power-sector-maguire-2024-04-17/
Wind droughts are the fundamental problem. The Energy Bad Boys are right onto this and awareness is growing, not before time because the Autralians Anton Lang and the Paul Miskelly group described the wind drought problem over a decade ago ,but nobody took any notice. There was more conventional power in the system so the variable input didn’t really matter and people didn’t notice what was going on, like the frog in the saucepan.
It is scandalous that the meteorologists never said anything about wind droughts and the wind policy planners never asked. Now we know that windmills should never have been connected to the grid.
Last Summer in CTX and mostly all of TX and OK, we had multiple "HEAT DOMES". The renewables press highlighted in early July that the renewables saved texas power generation over. The real truth is that wind generation doesn't operate in extreme heat - NO WIND, my neighbors Generac's natural gas generators fired up and we stayed out of electricity a couple of times in 106+, once for 20 hrs during a 106 day, this year I'll spend any blackouts with a neighbor. The state of Texas is an independent energy state run by ERCOT, as an isolated Power Grid all Heat Waves requires all energy sources to operate at max and during the summer months. Further, Texas wind power output tends to hit its seasonal lows during the summer due to lower wind speeds, so total clean power generation may actually approach its annual low just as total power demand hits its highs. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/slow-clean-power-generation-growth-hits-texas-power-sector-maguire-2024-04-17/
There is another aspect of drought that needs more of a spotlight:
Large scale wind farms increase local temperatures and dry out ecosystems from air movement and friction. Please see:
https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/redux-wind-turbines-cause-local-and
We should get a lawsuit going on these grounds