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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3262628" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Battery technology isn’t at that level yet although there are folks working on it. Elon Musk for one I think.</p><p></p><p>Back in the 80’s and 90’s there was a push to deregulate the power generation industry starting on the west coast, eventually working its way to Oklahoma and Tx. Small natural gas merchant power plants started popping up everywhere. </p><p>California really embraced the concept. Merchant plants came on line almost daily for awhile with one big problem, Redundancy. </p><p>Anyone that has worked in a critical base load planet is familiar with quadruple redundancy to provide reliability. </p><p>If small merchant plants have a single issue, they go off line instantly making the rest of the grid pick up the load. </p><p>The average grid system that is huge will cover an outage so seamlessly that it’s undetectable except in the case of the merchant plants in Ca. </p><p>They put them up so cheaply and poorly that plants tripping off line were causing other plants to trip off line in response causing rolling blackouts that lasted quite awhile. There was some political issues among competing owners that also contributed to the blackouts. </p><p>Ca spent a ton of money getting things right. </p><p>Ok was headed down that same path but the legislature and the OCC decided to keep Ok as a regulated industry. </p><p>Best decision they ever made imho.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3262628, member: 5412"] Battery technology isn’t at that level yet although there are folks working on it. Elon Musk for one I think. Back in the 80’s and 90’s there was a push to deregulate the power generation industry starting on the west coast, eventually working its way to Oklahoma and Tx. Small natural gas merchant power plants started popping up everywhere. California really embraced the concept. Merchant plants came on line almost daily for awhile with one big problem, Redundancy. Anyone that has worked in a critical base load planet is familiar with quadruple redundancy to provide reliability. If small merchant plants have a single issue, they go off line instantly making the rest of the grid pick up the load. The average grid system that is huge will cover an outage so seamlessly that it’s undetectable except in the case of the merchant plants in Ca. They put them up so cheaply and poorly that plants tripping off line were causing other plants to trip off line in response causing rolling blackouts that lasted quite awhile. There was some political issues among competing owners that also contributed to the blackouts. Ca spent a ton of money getting things right. Ok was headed down that same path but the legislature and the OCC decided to keep Ok as a regulated industry. Best decision they ever made imho. [/QUOTE]
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