Dino juice v Electrons....

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

time2roll wrote:

I think you are confusing safety curtailments with lack of generation.

Nope, In my area we have had both. "Safety for fire" bla, bla, bla........and rolling blackouts do toinadequate supply.

CEC wrote:
Last summer’s rolling blackouts were the result of inadequate supply-demand planning as well as market issues, California’s grid operator confirmed.

Link

Time, you have no excuse for not knowing this. You live in California so you should know this. Nice try though. :R

BTW in the end it doesn't really matter what the reason they cut power. Can you imagine the chaos in the state of California when you have 10's of millions of cars trying to get a charge to go to work the next day and the power is cut off? Nice hu?

What about if you're in your Tesla Semi "that is coming out next year" :B and you can't get a charge to get that load of food to the market on time. Nice hu?

Have you actually read this? It is the explanation of a single 30 year event. This not about the safety shut offs to prevent wildfires in remote areas.

And to my point of a natural gas plant going off line: (from your link)

"At 2:57 p.m., a unit with full capacity of 494 MW recorded a forced outage because of plant trouble.32 When the unit went out of service, it was generating 475 MW. The CAISO dispatched its contingency reserves to replace the lost energy. As explained above, contingency reserves as required by the NERC and WECC are designed to protect against a sudden loss of generation, unplanned outage of a transmission facility, or sudden loss of an import due to the loss of transmission."

And of course if you embraced the Ford Lightning it would actually keep your power on during a safety shut off. EVs are becoming part of the solution, not a problem that is making the grid unreliable.