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Originally posted by cva34 View PostInteresting THX.....we barely keep up with demand ...wait tell B gets his nightmare...How we gona CHARGE all these E CARS...without MELTING power lines or a choice of COOL or WALK...HU??????????
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well sort of. when power is produced it has to go somewhere. too much power produced makes for overvoltage and over frequency. Too little the frequency falls and then system voltage. you cant just make electricity and have sit there in a can waiting to be used so to speak.
so what most are interested in is the reserves value; meaning what is available to boost up the system
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Originally posted by WItoTX View PostSomeone will come along and explain it better than me, but basically we don't generate electricity just to generate electricity. You want to have as much power as necessary to keep the grid stable, but not waste money by producing excess power that is never consumed.
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Originally posted by Garbuster View PostPower plants have the ability to increase or decrease the amount of electricity we produce upon demand. Having said that they're is a limit of how much/little we can produce. The plant I work at is a 2 unit coal fired plant. Each unit has the capability of producing 525 megawatts. The lowest we'll run is 200. If load is not there we'll bring a unit/units offline
The ramp up/ramp down cycling was a massive issue for us, and we had lots of tube failures on all the units, even the 525 MW unit that we commissioned starting in 2005.
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Originally posted by Pedernal View PostJust got a text message asking for conservative use of power 1400 to 1900
Looks like the wind is letting us down
I've received two emails from my provider citing lack of wind and solar generation.
I'm sure there are some in the know on here that can explain that further or why that isn't necessarily the case.
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Originally posted by cva34 View PostInteresting THX.....we barely keep up with demand ...wait tell B gets his nightmare...How we gona CHARGE all these E CARS...without MELTING power lines or a choice of COOL or WALK...HU??????????
makes perfect sense...
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