Planned coal retirements last year totaled 8.0 gigawatts. Only 2.6 gigawatts actually shut down. Why did the U.S. Department of Energy step in? Because reliability warnings are getting louder. In its latest assessments, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warns that large portions of the Midwest face a high risk of electricity shortfalls during
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Being replaced with renewables plus battery storage. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0bBkfMKyqZsjyQMPuNQJr2XzrtdhhPk3CVm8WRFn89T3zdtci6oQwn3Mm5tHvb7fLl&id=100050608264103&post_id=100050608264103_pfbid0bBkfMKyqZsjyQMPuNQJr2XzrtdhhPk3CVm8WRFn89T3zdtci6oQwn3Mm5tHvb7fLl&mibextid=CDWPTG
Graph showing drop in renewables over the last decade or so. https://www.facebook.com/100083516882613/posts/pfbid029T4wi3N5BUTjGarpzSCddu4E3vEA5S1Hxdd8D1X3ZYHWGbSvYYdmR9JTdXmZKjzRl/?mibextid=Nif5oz
It’s a 15 min. video partly in German without translation. From DW Planet A.
400 GWh of BESS – battery energy storage systems, worldwide as of the end of 2025. Rapidly replacing the gas peaker plants. Western Australia is an excellent example.
And it’s not a minute too soon!! Australia’s battery revolution is pushing gas out of the grid support business https://www.facebook.com/100050608264103/posts/pfbid0B1uyxmhPv8RqXBJz2PKmCkNqDu5HVsduG9KmfVJ4xQtsVPTcoHnLvE6r9pCLMLxal/?mibextid=CDWPTG
https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/las-clean-energy-future-mayor-bass-opens-one-countrys-largest-solar-battery-energy-storage?fbclid=IwVERTSAOkWaNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR747xHLoapNs8SAzi9HXK6OVbpVu40Pcwf-meT9812tpLZe5o5QDHGRZ0Ha1A_aem_493ztAAb8afso1LNrk4dBw
Political willpower. Not the spineless “Drill baby drill” assholes we have in our government. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02Y6Bjt3ZFN7bQgC67msexwdy3usn9Y5H6XDMGzSaP2HbGbWGeGodwKnSnWik2H2NLl&id=100078687736088&post_id=100078687736088_pfbid02Y6Bjt3ZFN7bQgC67msexwdy3usn9Y5H6XDMGzSaP2HbGbWGeGodwKnSnWik2H2NLl&mibextid=Nif5oz
This video is important because it shows that the electrical engineers’ claims that the grid must have rotating inertia has been superceded by electronics and software – grid forming inverters. Starting at about the 10:00 point she tells us about grid forming inverters as opposed to rotating inertia such as synchronous condensers. In the last
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