{"id":236314,"date":"2022-12-27T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236314"},"modified":"2022-12-27T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T09:24:07","slug":"us-grid-needs-fossil-fuels-not-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236314","title":{"rendered":"US Grid Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just to follow up yesterday\u2019s post on the Texas grid, here are two charts for the US as a whole.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first show how total demand rose by more than 100GW during the cold spell just before Christmas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second illustrates how wind power halved in the space of 24 hours at the same time:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/electricity\/gridmonitor\/dashboard\/electric_overview\/US48\/US48<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This destroys the idea that the wind is always blowing somewhere, and that all you have to do is distribute surplus power around the country in order to meet demand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And without gas or some other dispatchable source, how would that loss of wind power and surge in demand have been met?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And without gas or some other dispatchable source, how would that loss of wind power and surge in demand have been met?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":236320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-838.png?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-Ztw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":337872,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337872","url_meta":{"origin":236314,"position":0},"title":"On grid stability","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"29\/07\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Readers of this site will be more aware than most of the difficulties involved in eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from electricity grids. 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