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The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms
DesScorp writes "The Times reports on the problems of adding wind farms to the power grid. Because of the grid's old design, it can't handle the various spikes that wind farms sometimes have, and there's no efficient way to currently move massive amounts of that power from one section of the country to the other. Further complicating things is the fact that under current laws, power grid regulation is a state matter, and the Federal government has comparatively little authority over it right now. Critics are calling for federal authority over the grid, and massive new construction of 'superhighways' to share the wind power wealth nationally. Quoting the article, 'The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.'"
Mod -1 Idiot. The California crisis was because there wasn't enough power being generated. This dipshit doesn't know what he is talking about. I was there. I remember.
more distributed system
I'm confused. Advocates of 'alternative' energy have been claiming that renewable power generation provides localized electrical generation, which is supposedly better because legacy fossil fuel power generation is centralized in massive power plants controlled by... unpleasant troll-like beings or something.
Now we're told that wind and solar actually need some monster 'energy superhighway' to be effective. So when Feinstein needs more eco-votes and shuts down wind farms in CA to keep bat lungs from exploding someone in the midwest is in the dark? Are rate adjustments now national debates?