Blame It On The Bossa Nova -- NE ISO Grid Challenged When Not Enough Solar Power -- July 7, 2023

Locator: 45929GRID. 

This will be the feature story today. This was. posted earlier. Background is down below, keep scrolling.

ISO NE: spot prices jump to $2,700 / MWh while cooking dinner. It appears "briefly" is defined as less than four hours in New England.

Not a problem unless one is doing brain surgery at Mass General and the emergency power fueled by diesel, of course, doesn't kick in immediately.

When you absolutely, positively need electricity --- go with diesel ... or Russian crude oil as they do in New England.

I can't make this stuff up.

Blame it on Canada.

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Background

Pending.

Links here.

• extra power was needed earlier this week to keep the ISO NE grid from failing and bringing down the entire US grid, except of course, Texas, whose ERCOT ISO system walls itself off from the rest of the US, for this very reason (and a few other reasons, LOL), link here, Concord Monitor, July 6, 2023,
• new transmission lines key to clean energy future, Commonwealth Magazine, April 13, 2023.
• New Hampshire NPR, July 5, 2023: eight NE states need Federal help building transmission lines.
  

It's always interesting to see how faux environmentalists fail to show how expensive electricity becomes when the grid comes close to failing due to lack of wind or sun. LOL. 

By the way, how's that solar energy going to work out when the Biden administration blocks the sun's rays from reaching the US?

LOL.

I can't make this stuff up.

Screenshots from the links:

And here's the problem:

Brutal heat combined with a sudden shortfall in imported electricity caused the operators of New England’s power grid to fire up extra generators for a half hour on Wednesday, July 5, 2023.

The shortfall in electricity production versus demand, known as a capacity deficiency, began shortly after 6 p.m. as a “transmission equipment failure significantly reduced imported electricity coming to New England.” The six-state region can import or export electricity from New York, Quebec and New Brunswick as needed; details of the failure were not available Thursday

Demand for electricity production by power plants often spikes at around 6 p.m. on a summer weekday because people turn on air conditioning as they get home from work and the region’s solar production – which on a sunny afternoon now generates three times as much electricity as Seabrook Station nuclear plant – begins to wind down.