Title : Texas Heat And Wind: Lots Of Hot Air -- July 19, 2018
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Texas Heat And Wind: Lots Of Hot Air -- July 19, 2018
Posted earlier:Texas heat: Texas sets back-to-back electricity demand records, and likely to keep setting new records -- summer is just beginning here in Texas. Electricity demand in Texas dwarfs that of California. Amazing.Now, let's look at wind production:
- DFW hit 106 late Wednesday afternoon -- but it was a dry heat
- Love Field, downtown Dallas, hit 107
- Spinks Airport, Ft Worth, hit 108
- yesterday, a new record, between 4 and 5 p.m.: 72,192 MW
- yesterday, one hour earlier: also set a record -- broken one hour later
- both of those records topped the August, 2016, mark of 71,110 MW
- California demand record was around 54,000 MW set some years ago
Energy demand today hit 61,195 MW at noon, Texas time, and will continue to rise through late afternoon. During this period, when demand will near/exceed 70,000 MW -- how much energy will all that wind capacity supply? About 3,000 MW.
Note: wind-produced electricity will fall even farther tomorrow. And not by a trivial amount. Fossil fuel utility plants will need to be up and running well before increased demand becomes reality; incredibly inefficient -- even while wind is providing electricity, fossil-fuel plants need to be running in the background to ensure "viability" of the electric grid.
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At the nadir, 42,000 MW, wind provides a significant amount, upwards of 15,000 MW, but it's not dependable, and fossil fuel plants need to be running in the background to ensure the grid "holds."
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Proof That The Texas Grid Is Holding
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