EXACTLY! This is so easy to understand, yet the geniuses pushing us down this road are clueless.
You need a big, inertia rich power source to set the frequency. It's like a band, with a lead instrument, a bass, that tells the rest of the band what to do. Each energy source is not created equally - some contribute the same # of GWhs but are vastly more important than others.
And, you have to get this right 24/7/365. That is 61,000 opportunities to screw up every year, and one slip, one unusual event, and the whole grid crashes. And if you really messed up, the grid could be down a week.
They are playing with fire, and it is statistically inevitable the whole thing crashes once you lose that inertia.
How well is CO’s grid interconnected with others that could provide done inertial help if needed? I think the lack of any such sizable connection was one of the problems in Spain.
We're not even well connected within the state. They do have new transmission lines that will get us decent connections within the state and more connections to other states. So I guess it's a race between building the transmission lines and decommissioning the coal plants.
Yep, Spain proved you need large rotating machines to provide inertia to ride out system disturbances.
You guys need a couple of 1 GW nuclear plants to replace the coal plants.
We are very fortunate here in Arizona to have 3.9 GW of nuclear power at Palo Verde.
EXACTLY! This is so easy to understand, yet the geniuses pushing us down this road are clueless.
You need a big, inertia rich power source to set the frequency. It's like a band, with a lead instrument, a bass, that tells the rest of the band what to do. Each energy source is not created equally - some contribute the same # of GWhs but are vastly more important than others.
And, you have to get this right 24/7/365. That is 61,000 opportunities to screw up every year, and one slip, one unusual event, and the whole grid crashes. And if you really messed up, the grid could be down a week.
They are playing with fire, and it is statistically inevitable the whole thing crashes once you lose that inertia.
Yep, Spain proved you need large rotating machines to provide inertia to ride out system disturbances.
You guys need a couple of 1 GW nuclear plants to replace the coal plants.
How well is CO’s grid interconnected with others that could provide done inertial help if needed? I think the lack of any such sizable connection was one of the problems in Spain.
We're not even well connected within the state. They do have new transmission lines that will get us decent connections within the state and more connections to other states. So I guess it's a race between building the transmission lines and decommissioning the coal plants.