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Blackouts possible at height of California's heat wave Tuesday as grid struggles with record usage
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Leroy N. Soetoro
06/09/2022، 2:16:42 م6/9/2022
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article265350931.html
Staving off rolling blackouts Labor Day evening, managers of California’s
beleaguered power grid declared — but later canceled — an energy emergency
alert Monday. But blackouts still loomed as a possibility Tuesday, when
workers were returning to their offices and electricity demands were
forecast at an all-time high. The Independent System Operator, which runs
the electricity grid, declared a Stage 2 emergency alert effective 6:30
p.m. Monday, a sign that supplies were turning increasingly tight as
temperatures rose to 110 degrees and beyond. The alert ended at 9 p.m.
Blackouts — the first in two years — would likely have come if the ISO had
to declare a Stage 3 alert. Complicating matters, the ISO also declared a
“transmission emergency” for Northern California earlier Monday evening,
saying it needed to “relieve overloads in the Palermo area” of Butte
County.
“We have now entered the most intense phase of this heat wave,” Elliot
Mainzer, president and chief executive of the ISO, said earlier in the
day. “The potential for rotating outages has increased significantly.”
Mainzer said the grid was looking at “energy deficits of 2,000 to 4,000
megawatts, which is as much as 10% of normal electricity demand.” That
could take as many as 3 million households offline. The Flex Alert — a
call for voluntary conservation for a sixth straight evening — was in
effect from 4 to 10 p.m., an hour longer than usual, underscoring the
increasingly dicey conditions on the grid as temperatures across parts of
inland California were expected to soar to 110 degrees or higher.
Mainzer said Californians have rallied during the heat wave, reducing
their consumption by nearly 1,000 megawatts both Saturday and Sunday
nights — enough electricity for more than 750,000 households. But to get
through Labor Day unscathed, he said those conservation efforts would have
to double or triple. At around noon, power consumption was expected to
peak Monday evening at 48,961 megawatts.
But at 6 p.m. it had already topped that prediction by a few megawatts.
Tuesday was shaping up as considerably worse: a peak demand of 51,144
megawatts, breaking a 16-year-old record for energy use in California. “We
are on razor thin margins,” said Siva Gunda, vice chairman of the
California Energy Commission. The state scrambled to keep the lights on. A
small fleet of new gas-fired power generators in Roseville and Yuba City,
authorized by the state last year and operated by the Department of Water
Resources, was turned on for the first time.
They generated enough power for about 120,000 homes. Additionally, Gov.
Gavin Newsom’s emergency order last week enables industrial businesses and
others to fire up backup generators that otherwise would be prohibited by
air-pollution regulations, Gunda said. “A lot of our participants can turn
on their (generators) and take load off the grid,” he said. Some customers
with so-called interruptible rates — which provides discounts but leaves
them vulnerable to curbs in energy availability as supplies dwindle —
could be taken offline.
Meanwhile, Newsom’s staff was calling big commercial and industrial firms,
asking them to curtail their usage so blackouts could be avoided, said
Newsom’s spokeswoman Erin Mellon. “Inelegantly called ‘dialing for
megawatts,’” she said. Help could also come from utilities such as SMUD,
the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which isn’t part of the ISO’s
grid network and wouldn’t necessarily have blackouts if they occur.
Mainzer said various utilities outside the ISO system typically share
power with each other during crunch times. “There’s an expectation among
the utilities,” Mainzer said. “They’ve been working together for years.”
SMUD had its hands full with near-record power demands Monday. Whether it
will be able to share power with the ISO’s statewide system “will have to
be a gametime decision,” said SMUD spokeswoman Lindsay VanLaningham. “If
we have extra, we will.” Like the state, SMUD was asking Sacramento
residents to turn up their thermostats to 78 degrees Monday evening to
save power.
VanLaningham said it appeared Monday evening that SMUD would avoid rolling
outages of its own. Mark Rothleder, the ISO’s chief operating officer,
said Californians have done an admirable job so far of responding to the
Flex Alerts; the number of megawatts saved has actually increased as the
heat wave has continued. Another saving grace has been comparatively mild
weather in the Pacific Northwest, enabling that region to export more
electricity to California.
But the grid has experienced considerable setbacks. Rothleder said three
gas-fired power plants conked out and were still struggling to regain full
power, erasing about 1,000 megawatts in total. The drought has severely
curtailed hydroelectric supplies all summer. All told, 7,735 megawatts of
power were out of commission as of Monday morning, according to ISO data.
The biggest crunch on the power grid is expected Tuesday, when
temperatures in the Sacramento Valley could reach 115 degrees and power
demand could set the system’s record.
“Our goal is to make sure we do not reach that number,” Mainzer said. The
current record: 50,270 megawatts consumed July 24, 2006. The state avoided
blackouts that day, but California’s power portfolio has changed
considerably in the past 15 years, creating new areas of vulnerability. In
particular, California’s increasing reliance on solar power and other
renewable sources has made the grid susceptible to blackouts in the early
evening, when solar panels go dark but the weather stays hot.
The state had two straight nights of rolling blackouts in August 2020 and
nearly had a repeat during the July 2021 heat wave. Since then the state
has been able to bring on more than 8,000 fresh megawatts of capacity,
including more than 2,000 megawatts of battery storage — a system for
marshaling excess power generated by rooftop solar panels and other
sources — Gunda said.
“Imagine where we’d be if we hadn’t done the stuff we’ve done the last two
years,” said Mellon, Newsom’s spokeswoman. During a Flex Alert,
Californians are urged to cool off their homes ahead of time and then turn
up thermostats to 78 degrees. They also are asked to defer using heavy
appliances. “We know this has been a long haul,” Mainzer said, “and it’s
about to get even more difficult.”
Temperatures are expected to stay well above 100 degrees in the capital
region for the bulk of the week after the National Weather Service
extended its excessive heat warning through Thursday night. In addition,
air quality managers issued the year’s fourth Spare the Air alert for
Monday, as the heat is expected to keep ozone levels unhealthy for
sensitive groups. Before the heat wave, the region had just one alert day
in 2022.
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"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
Staving off rolling blackouts Labor Day evening, managers of California’s
beleaguered power grid declared — but later canceled — an energy emergency
alert Monday. But blackouts still loomed as a possibility Tuesday, when
workers were returning to their offices and electricity demands were
forecast at an all-time high. The Independent System Operator, which runs
the electricity grid, declared a Stage 2 emergency alert effective 6:30
p.m. Monday, a sign that supplies were turning increasingly tight as
temperatures rose to 110 degrees and beyond. The alert ended at 9 p.m.
Blackouts — the first in two years — would likely have come if the ISO had
to declare a Stage 3 alert. Complicating matters, the ISO also declared a
“transmission emergency” for Northern California earlier Monday evening,
saying it needed to “relieve overloads in the Palermo area” of Butte
County.
“We have now entered the most intense phase of this heat wave,” Elliot
Mainzer, president and chief executive of the ISO, said earlier in the
day. “The potential for rotating outages has increased significantly.”
Mainzer said the grid was looking at “energy deficits of 2,000 to 4,000
megawatts, which is as much as 10% of normal electricity demand.” That
could take as many as 3 million households offline. The Flex Alert — a
call for voluntary conservation for a sixth straight evening — was in
effect from 4 to 10 p.m., an hour longer than usual, underscoring the
increasingly dicey conditions on the grid as temperatures across parts of
inland California were expected to soar to 110 degrees or higher.
Mainzer said Californians have rallied during the heat wave, reducing
their consumption by nearly 1,000 megawatts both Saturday and Sunday
nights — enough electricity for more than 750,000 households. But to get
through Labor Day unscathed, he said those conservation efforts would have
to double or triple. At around noon, power consumption was expected to
peak Monday evening at 48,961 megawatts.
But at 6 p.m. it had already topped that prediction by a few megawatts.
Tuesday was shaping up as considerably worse: a peak demand of 51,144
megawatts, breaking a 16-year-old record for energy use in California. “We
are on razor thin margins,” said Siva Gunda, vice chairman of the
California Energy Commission. The state scrambled to keep the lights on. A
small fleet of new gas-fired power generators in Roseville and Yuba City,
authorized by the state last year and operated by the Department of Water
Resources, was turned on for the first time.
They generated enough power for about 120,000 homes. Additionally, Gov.
Gavin Newsom’s emergency order last week enables industrial businesses and
others to fire up backup generators that otherwise would be prohibited by
air-pollution regulations, Gunda said. “A lot of our participants can turn
on their (generators) and take load off the grid,” he said. Some customers
with so-called interruptible rates — which provides discounts but leaves
them vulnerable to curbs in energy availability as supplies dwindle —
could be taken offline.
Meanwhile, Newsom’s staff was calling big commercial and industrial firms,
asking them to curtail their usage so blackouts could be avoided, said
Newsom’s spokeswoman Erin Mellon. “Inelegantly called ‘dialing for
megawatts,’” she said. Help could also come from utilities such as SMUD,
the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which isn’t part of the ISO’s
grid network and wouldn’t necessarily have blackouts if they occur.
Mainzer said various utilities outside the ISO system typically share
power with each other during crunch times. “There’s an expectation among
the utilities,” Mainzer said. “They’ve been working together for years.”
SMUD had its hands full with near-record power demands Monday. Whether it
will be able to share power with the ISO’s statewide system “will have to
be a gametime decision,” said SMUD spokeswoman Lindsay VanLaningham. “If
we have extra, we will.” Like the state, SMUD was asking Sacramento
residents to turn up their thermostats to 78 degrees Monday evening to
save power.
VanLaningham said it appeared Monday evening that SMUD would avoid rolling
outages of its own. Mark Rothleder, the ISO’s chief operating officer,
said Californians have done an admirable job so far of responding to the
Flex Alerts; the number of megawatts saved has actually increased as the
heat wave has continued. Another saving grace has been comparatively mild
weather in the Pacific Northwest, enabling that region to export more
electricity to California.
But the grid has experienced considerable setbacks. Rothleder said three
gas-fired power plants conked out and were still struggling to regain full
power, erasing about 1,000 megawatts in total. The drought has severely
curtailed hydroelectric supplies all summer. All told, 7,735 megawatts of
power were out of commission as of Monday morning, according to ISO data.
The biggest crunch on the power grid is expected Tuesday, when
temperatures in the Sacramento Valley could reach 115 degrees and power
demand could set the system’s record.
“Our goal is to make sure we do not reach that number,” Mainzer said. The
current record: 50,270 megawatts consumed July 24, 2006. The state avoided
blackouts that day, but California’s power portfolio has changed
considerably in the past 15 years, creating new areas of vulnerability. In
particular, California’s increasing reliance on solar power and other
renewable sources has made the grid susceptible to blackouts in the early
evening, when solar panels go dark but the weather stays hot.
The state had two straight nights of rolling blackouts in August 2020 and
nearly had a repeat during the July 2021 heat wave. Since then the state
has been able to bring on more than 8,000 fresh megawatts of capacity,
including more than 2,000 megawatts of battery storage — a system for
marshaling excess power generated by rooftop solar panels and other
sources — Gunda said.
“Imagine where we’d be if we hadn’t done the stuff we’ve done the last two
years,” said Mellon, Newsom’s spokeswoman. During a Flex Alert,
Californians are urged to cool off their homes ahead of time and then turn
up thermostats to 78 degrees. They also are asked to defer using heavy
appliances. “We know this has been a long haul,” Mainzer said, “and it’s
about to get even more difficult.”
Temperatures are expected to stay well above 100 degrees in the capital
region for the bulk of the week after the National Weather Service
extended its excessive heat warning through Thursday night. In addition,
air quality managers issued the year’s fourth Spare the Air alert for
Monday, as the heat is expected to keep ozone levels unhealthy for
sensitive groups. Before the heat wave, the region had just one alert day
in 2022.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
BeamMeUpScotty
07/09/2022، 11:29:29 ص7/9/2022
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Socialism and a one size fits all mentality that LEFTISTS are FAMOUS
FOR. The Democrats say it's an EMERGENCY and I say it's GOVERNMENT
incompetence... and the government is run by Democrats...
Is it any wonder that the Democrats would lie about it, given it's their
incompetence that is creating the EMERGENCY?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLK-U8kggFk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UryfqsEoJuI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HlTxGHn4sH4
Cap-and-trade (WAGE AND PRICE) markets use the power of
[COMMUNISM/Socialism] to cut *YOUR* emissions but NOT the elites
emissions. Apparently they use the power of [CENSORSHIP] to do this as well.
Obama personally tells you what Cap and Trade /or/ wage and price
*COMMUNISM* does to trade and prices...
Cap and trade will mean those costs will be passed on to the consumers
and when there aren't enough batteries to power everything.... because
there's a cap on the production that's set either ARTIFICIALLY BY
Democrats mining LAWS or NATURALLY by limited resources, there will be
shortages and it will mean there's going to be *RATIONING* and guess
who's NOT an *ESSENTIAL* worker in this system... Yes it's all of you
who were declared NON ESSENTIAL and were locked down during the WUHAN
VIRUS and couldn't go to work, all of you will be banned from buying
batteries for your cars and from traveling and your Social Credit Score
will also be your Social travel Passport and you won't be free to buy
gas and travel any longer, and you'll be locked-down *FOREVER* - rather
than just for a few years. Good luck with that.
100%.
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-That's karma-
The result is DEMOCRATS lies about history and reality to themselves and
others means their attempts to figure-out what's wrong is an exercise in
futility, because what they think they know they really don't know, and
fixing problems without the truth... becomes a fools errand.
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