Wind-power generated in California marks a record peak

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http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-california-windmills-hit-record-peak-20130408,0,3851425.story

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Wind-power generated in California marks a record peak[/font]

By Marc Lifsher
April 9, 2013, 7:00 a.m.

[font size=3]SACRAMENTO -- California wind power generators produced a record 4,196 megawatts of electricity Sunday evening, the state's grid operator reported.

That's enough power to run more than three million houses in Southern California.

Sunday's record bested the previous peak production of 4,095 megawatts the previous Friday and the earlier record of 3,944 megawatts on March 3, according to the Independent System Operator, the agency that controls about four-fifths of California's high-voltage electricity network.

"With these impressive wind production levels, California is well positioned to meet the 33% by 2020 green power goal," said ISO President Steve Berberich. "Our control center operators are tracking a steady increase in renewable energy."

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1. Only Renewables - Not Nuclear - Could Be Too Cheap To Meter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/may/22/energy-nuclear-renewables

Only renewables - not nuclear - could be too cheap to meter

Germany's long support for wind and solar energy is delivering zero-cost electricity at times. In contrast, the UK's new energy policy seeks to underwrite the rising cost of nuclear

"Too cheap to meter": that was the infamous boast of the nuclear power industry in its heyday. It has been catastrophically discredited by history.

Yet the phrase may yet see a new life - not of course for nuclear power - but for renewable energy. As the UK government publishes its draft energy bill on Tuesday, acknowledged by all but ministers themselves as primarily an arcane way of getting new nuclear power stations built, I am in Germany.

Already, on one particularly windy weekend here, the surge of electricity drove the price down to zero. Very soon, due to the 25GW of solar capacity Germany has already installed, hot summer's days will see the same effect: electricity too cheap to meter.

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2. It's been crazy windy here. I'm impressed by these production figures.

...given that high winds are often less productive for a given turbine technology.

I imagine it's duration of the windy conditions more than the wind speeds, which are a bit too high right now.

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3. It briefly met 20% of demand

http://www.caiso.com/Pages/TodaysOutlook.aspx#SupplyandDemand

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5. See. Put some fucking storage in the equation and we're good to go.

WTF America?

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4. Exactly! Windy as heck Sunday! n/t