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The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has released their winter reliability assessment. As our electrical grid becomes increasingly challenged by age, consumption and the changes in dispatchable power sources it depicts the likelihood of power shortages during the winter heating season. As you glance through the report, you can indentify the area where you live and see how robust your power generation capacity is. Also, you can see how reliant your area is on dispatchable fossil fuel generation and how difficult it will be to replace these sources with renewable resources in the time frame promised by the politicians. You will find particular illuminating the Variable Energy Resources chart on page 43. It depicts the expected power output of the three major renewable sources wind, solar and hydro vs their "nameplate" power output. Nameplate output being the maximum output under ideal conditions vs expected or real world output. As an example. my assessment area is SERC-Central. In this area, the nameplate output of installed wind turbines is 28MW while the expected output is 8MW or 28%. The nameplate output of installed solar is 774MW while the expected output is 230MW or 38%. The nameplate output of installed hydro is 4967MW while the expected output is 3315MW or 67%. Find your area and see where you stand.
Report (nerc.com)
Mike
Report (nerc.com)
Mike
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