NE ISO -- Even By Their Standards, This Was Outrageous -- September 7, 2022

Updates

Later, 12:05 p.m. CT: link here.

Original Post 

This was from yesterday morning, early yesterday morning before the daily commute even began.

Electricity in the autumn, in the morning, in New England, trending toward $500 / MWh.

By the way, last night, Tuesday, September 7, 2022, the governor of California implored EV owners not to charge their EVs overnight. Are you kidding me. Two percent of automobiles in California (at most, and I bet that's an exaggeration of what's really being driven) and the grid can't handle charging EVs overnight. And the state will ban all new gasoline car sales by 2035.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to that bullet train? For one thing, the federal government just gave California another $25 million for the project. Isn't this project going to cost something like $100 billion. 

25 million / 75 billion = 0.03%. That is a rounding error.

I can't make this stuff up.

Just think: all that money sent to Ukraine could have bought a bullet train built by the Chinese by now.

Putin's War -- Random Observation -- September 7, 2022

In the past few weeks there have been stories in the mainstream media suggesting the Pentagon is concerned about America's depleting ammunition stockpiles. 

Oh, give me a break.

If folks can't see what that's all about ... but that story is for another time.

Let's think about this. If the US is running short of ammunition due to one small war -- in just part of noe country, one can't even call it a regional war -- that has barely lasted six months-- what does that say about our preparedness for a prolonged two-front war in Korea and Europe? Just one link but this, too, is a story for another time.

But if NATO preparedness and the full might of the western military-industrial complex (US, UK, France, Germany just to name a few) is struggling ... any thought about Russia?

From Peter Zeihan today:

When I recorded the first part of today's video, it was in reaction to news that the Russians were having to turn to Iran of all places to help replace the drones lost in ongoing invasion of Ukraine. That Moscow needs to rely on Tehran for anything should be concerning, but perhaps not in the reasons that immediately come to mind. This move by the Russians does not point to the Iranians expanding membership to the Axis of Evil, or a tacit recognition of their technological superiority.

Rather, Russia's desperate.

Iran is not an up-and-coming manufacturing power. Nor have they broken some sort of secret code when it comes to drone and UAV technology. They're certainly not even producing anything comparable to Turkey's burgeoning military manufacturing sector. But unlike Turkey, Iranian drones are not dependent on Western technological imports. Or even foreign satellites. Whether or not they'll have the impact the Russians are looking for in Ukraine is debatable, but the state of the Russian production sector has never looked worse.

Which brings us back to the Axis of Evil. No, a skull-shaped headquarters has not emerged from some fetid swamp (but who can be sure what really goes on in New Jersey politics). Rather, the Russians have tapped another unlikely "partner" to help them combat their rapidly depleting ammunition stocks: North Korea. Moscow is set to begin purchases of artillery shells from Pyongyang, a country whose conventional military production capabilities have not been stress-tested since the cessation of armed conflict on the Korean peninsula nearly seven decades ago.

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From Yesterday, With No Follow-Up
Nevermind

Link here.

ISO NE -- A Random Observation -- September 7, 2022

Link here.

Resource mix in New England this morning.

Because demand is so low not much "hydro" is needed, keeping the cost for electricity down (at the moment) but look at the full resource mix picture, at perhaps the best time of the year -- along with spring -- with regard to the weather in New England:

• net imports: 17%
• renewables: 4%

Are you kidding me? Net imports at 17% and renewables at a paltry 4% when the wind should be blowing nicely this time of day.

Speaking of wind, the renewable mix: wind is barely winning the bronze medal.

• garbage, landfill: a whopping 53% of the renewable mix; this is third world stuff
• wood: at 33%, it gets the silver medal; again, third world stuff (Africa) except the UK is also big into wood, too -- something that when burned apparently does not emit CO2
• wind: 13%. 

Let's see, 13% of 4% is 0.5%. Wind is contributing 0.5% of the total New England resource mix. How many billions and how many years have the folks in New England been ....

Is anyone paying attention?

Off The Net For The Night -- September 6, 2022

I've hit a wall. It's not as bad as it sometimes hits. I have to take a break. I assume I will post at least one blog tomorrow but it could be delayed.

E-mail won't be answered, and comments to blogs won't be moderated and/or posted overnight.

Liberty Resources Az / Az W Wells -- Enget Lake

From the daily activity report, September 6, 2022:

Horizontal, re-entry, approval:

• 38417, conf, Liberty Resources, Az W 158-93-13-24-1MBH, Enget Lake,

There are four drilling sites on this pad. The other three:

• 38416, conf, Liberty Resources, Az W 158-93-13-24-5MBH, Enget Lake,
• 38415, conf, Liberty Resources, Az W 158-93-13-24-2MBH, Enget Lake,
• 38414, conf, Liberty Resources, Az W 158-93-13-24-3MBH, Enget Lake,

Of interest, this well to the east:

• 35090, 1,094, Liberty Resources, Az 158-93-13-24-4MBH, Enget Lake, t3/19; cum 233K 7/22;