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2022-05-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

California says it needs more power to keep the lights on

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Posted by Fred 2022-05-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Reuters doesn't say it but there are two crucial details

- California imports 20 too 30% of its electricity

- In the summer, after the sun goes down and it is still hot, electricity generated from solar goes off but the demand for A/C is still high until well after midnight. During this period, California imports as much as 40-50% of its electricity.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-05-08 00:39|| 2022-05-08 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 And they want everybody to switch to electric cars! Doesn't do much good if they cannot recharge their cars.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-05-08 03:47|| 2022-05-08 03:47|| Front Page Top

#3 However, CA pols believe in magic. They certainly don't believe in technology to deliver the energy they crave.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-08 06:50|| 2022-05-08 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 "Captin, I canna give ya any more, or she'll blow..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-08 07:19|| 2022-05-08 07:19|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Captain Kirk meets President Biden.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-05-08 07:22|| 2022-05-08 07:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Tough shit. Get more from the fairy farts you worship.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-05-08 08:05|| 2022-05-08 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 I think lots of fairies have trouble building up any pressure...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-08 08:09|| 2022-05-08 08:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Man, that sure is a shame. We'd like to help you, but we just don't care. Hell, we think it's all funny and cute yer begging for power.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-05-08 08:43|| 2022-05-08 08:43|| Front Page Top

#9
Doing a little digging ...
California has around 118 power plants.
Many will have scheduled outages for extended maintenance or up CAL EPA required updates lasting 1+ year, over the next 10 years.

Cal. protested and forced cancelation of 13+ Nuke Power Plants in the last 15 years. Even the LA TIMES warned back 2019, if they kept shutting down power plants and not building new ones, there would be a serious energy shortage.

The California "Clean Energy" political agenda was killed by the Clean Affordable Energy political agenda promises.
It seems Natural Gas Power plants owners could not make enough using "Clean Energy" California politically regulated prices to operate the NG plants.

All this is boils down to Touchy-Feely, Tree-hugging, Earth 1st types. Being followed without looking at the likely repercussions back the road.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-05-08 08:47|| 2022-05-08 08:47|| Front Page Top

#10 AZ can send them power in return for a binding promise no blue voters will move from CA to AZ.

Oh, and pay for the power, of course.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-08 08:53|| 2022-05-08 08:53|| Front Page Top

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