Friday, January 5, 2018

Winter Storm Grayson: Where's The Natural Gas? What Happened To Hydroelectricity -- January 5, 2018

A graphic from yesterday:


The graphic from early this morning:
This is what jumps off the chart:
  • spot price surges to almost $500/MWh
  • what happened to natural gas? normally natural gas use surges when demand spikes
  • one nuclear plant remains off-line
  • what happened to hydro? hydro spiked to "2k" in the chart yesterday when electricity demand surges; today; hydro drops completely to zero before recovering a big
  • coal remains maxed out
  • later, 9:26 a.m. -- not seen on the this graphic -- renewables falling off just as demand increases

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