novaBBS - alt.home.repair - Re: Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

Re: Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

<q9sh1ilnnu52dlhe4mcrlvt3daufsaeti1@4ax.com>

https://www.novabbs.com/interests/article-flat.php?id=40463&group=alt.home.repair#40463

Path: i2pn2.org!i2pn.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx15.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: hub...@ccanoemail.com
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair
Subject: Re: Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?
Message-ID: <q9sh1ilnnu52dlhe4mcrlvt3daufsaeti1@4ax.com>
References: <op.11zw3dfymvhs6z@ryzen.home> <k7lkv1F55mrU1@mid.individual.net> <tva77t$3kj7d$4@dont-email.me> <Rm1SL.1065674$MVg8.194751@fx12.iad> <tvaqd0$3o0c9$1@dont-email.me> <r76SL.1977589$GNG9.130657@fx18.iad>
User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 19
X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:55:14 UTC
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 19:55:13 -0400
X-Received-Bytes: 1613

by: hub...@ccanoemail.com - Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:55 UTC

>>
>>Grid management predicts loads and they have steam up and turbines
>>spinning before the large increase in demand, with increased output from
>>already producing station, pumped storage, gas turbine, diesel, etc. to
>>fill rapid increases until other producers can be brought online.
>>
>
>They also have fast startup load following plants ready and waiting.
>Hydro is particularly attractive as a load-following plant as you just
>basically turn a valve and it starts generating.
>

Spinning reserve generation needs to be able to react
to a contingency that represents the loss of the single largest
generator - 850 megawatts for example - so I don't think
that normal demand fluctuations are a big problem.
John T.

Subject	Author
Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?	hubops

I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do? -- Raoul Duke

interests / alt.home.repair / Re: Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

interests / alt.home.repair / Re: Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?