Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Michael F. Stemper" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:20:39 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:20:39 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="926c7ab0ab3b5e8bf3e2a5ea9e2cd937"; logging-data="3266570"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181wQdJcjbhqf1O8w5KkIO2bLCKtTV8ync=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:bMmvXDXEWbecUBAA1YUkc22+Iaw= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2565 On 19/07/2024 11.38, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Lynn McGuire writes: >> On 7/18/2024 7:49 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote: > >> >> We (ERCOT) were pulling 600 MW off the eastern grid today after the >> solar power plants stopped making power between 6pm and 8pm. > > In california, we export (and store in batteries) energy during the > day, then draw down the batteries (and import a bit) during the evening > hours. During the day, about half of our electricity comes from solar. > > It's been great - during the 9 day heat wave (100teens every day > in much of the state) last week, we still had > a surplus generation capacity of about 11Gw every day. Much > of what we import at night comes from northwest hydro. > > As I type this, the state demand is 32,007 mw, solar provides > 18,309 mw, CH4 provides 8,024mw, and 4,851 mw is being used to > charge batteries for this evening and we're importing 2028 mw. Is there some kind of Cal-ISO web page from which you're extracting these data? If so, can you share? -- Michael F. Stemper Psalm 94:3-6