Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Being connected to the inter-state power grid does not always help

See Fossil Fuel Power Fell Up to 68% as Blackouts Hit US South by Josh Saul, Naureen S. Malik and Mark Chediak of Bloomberg. Excerpts:

"Duke also saw its gas generation drop off just when it was needed most, according to federal data. Generation from its plants fell about 42% from more than 6.6 gigawatts to a low of about 3.8 gigawatts on Dec. 24, the day it instituted outages.

The weather caused a reduction in Duke’s generation and extra electricity couldn’t be brought in from other power producers or from out of state because those utilities were also facing shortages, a Duke representative said in an email Thursday. And some of Duke’s generation was also offline due to planned or maintenance outages unrelated to the storm."

 

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