Hopefully this analysis has revealed some of the reasons for rising utility rates when incorporating renewables into the electrical grid despite the renewables having no fuel costs.
It also shows why these cost drivers are present but not apparent in a network containing sufficient dispatchable thermal sources of energy. Analyses done on an asset level insensitive to costs of interaction among generating plants will likely never explain the mystery…
Source: Watts Up With That?
Press releases
- Norway Rejects Climate Orthodoxy’s False Choice, Builds Wealth
- U.S. Nuclear Waste: History of a Failed Endeavor
- Wrong, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nuclear Power Isn’t the Reliability Problem
- ChatGPT Completely Nukes Kenya’s College Essay Writing Gig Economy
- ONS Peddling Fake Heatwave Deaths Scare
Alarmism Archives
- Wrong, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nuclear Power Isn’t the Reliability Problem
- Claim: 1.5C Global Warming is Not a Magic Number
- Claim: Solar saved the day when Heatwaves Forced Shutdowns of European Nuclear Plants
- The Ghoulish Race to Turn Nepal’s Flood Victims Into a ‘Climate Crisis’ Talking Point
- Betsy “Code Green” Rosenberg: Emotional Climatism
Sea level Archives
- New Study: The Antarctic Ice Sheet Gained Mass From 2020-2024 Due To Staggering Snow And Ice Accumulation
- New Study: Antarctic Ice Melt Has Contributed Less Than 1 Centimeter To Sea Level Rise In The Last 30 Years
- Technical Note on the Possible Variation in Sea Level Rise “Accelerations” over the Next 5 Years
- Pacific Climate Games
- New Study: Chile’s Relative Sea Level Was 3.2 Meters Higher Than Today During The Mid-Holocene
