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Monday, August 13, 2012

Watts Up With That?

Wind power not coming through for California – power alert issued by the CAISO
Posted on August 9, 2012 by Anthony Watts
I called the media support line for this press release issues today, to ask a couple of questions, here are the answers:

1. Q: Besides the heat wave, what other factors are contributing? A: “A Natural Gas plant of 775 megawatts went offline last night. The San Onofre nuclear plant remains offline with no restart scheduled.”

2. Q: Where is wind power in all of this, is it performing? A: “Well as you know, wind has to blow for wind power to be effective. “

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So it doesn't work in California, but O'Malley's positive it'll work in MD, so let's pour a boatload o' taxpayer and rate payer cash into it.
It's for the children.