Texas's deregulated electricity market raised consumer costs by $28B: WSJ

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4 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

which is most reliable?
which is a base load generator?

If you don't design or maintain the system correctly, it will not be reliable. Neither the hydro plants in BC or the Carbon spewing plants in Alberta this winter, and I promise you it was hella cold up there.

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1 hour ago, CanAm1980 said:

If you don't design or maintain the system correctly, it will not be reliable. Neither the hydro plants in BC or the Carbon spewing plants in Alberta this winter, and I promise you it was hella cold up there.

Your NB moment for the day?  Btw, I also though hydro was bad.

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1 hour ago, CanAm1980 said:

If you don't design or maintain the system correctly, it will not be reliable. Neither the hydro plants in BC or the Carbon spewing plants in Alberta this winter, and I promise you it was hella cold up there.

and if you rely on solar or wind, without enough base load capacity to fill in when your solar and wind go down, you'll have the same issue again.....

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3 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

If you don't design or maintain the system correctly, it will not be reliable. Neither the hydro plants in BC or the Carbon spewing plants in Alberta this winter, and I promise you it was hella cold up there.

much the same reason when it snows 1/2 inch in Ga, life comes to a standstill. 

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28 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

much the same reason when it snows 1/2 inch in Ga, life comes to a standstill. 

The cars, not the power plants

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2 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

and if you rely on solar or wind, without enough base load capacity to fill in when your solar and wind go down, you'll have the same issue again.....

What you are missing is that this so called base load capacity failed, even more than wind. 

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12 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

What you are missing is that this so called base load capacity failed, even more than wind. 

no, what failed was too much dependency on solar and wind - that is the difference between texas and alberta.

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1 hour ago, Ban Hammer said:

no, what failed was too much dependency on solar and wind - that is the difference between texas and alberta.

Keep swallowing that line... Texans got shafted by a "market based" solution that did not deliver. Alberta uses hydro from BC under peak load, they are not an island.

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47 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

Keep swallowing that line... Texans got shafted by a "market based" solution that did not deliver. Alberta uses hydro from BC under peak load, they are not an island.

by "market based" you mean the delusional demand for green energy?

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1 hour ago, Ban Hammer said:

by "market based" you mean the delusional demand for green energy?

I mean the state of Texas has built a system modeled after Enron.