QUOTE: Why would they reduce voltage? Would this not drive amperage UP? And further load the generators and transformers up as well?
AS NOTED, IT WORKS BETTER ON RESISTIVE LOADS, BUT IT HAS BEEN OUR EXPERIENCE THAT IT STILL HELPS (ALBEIT MORE IN THE WINTER THAN SUMMER.
QUOTE: This time they actually pushed most of the systems to the limit knowingly to failure.
I'VE HEARD THIS ARGUMENT BEFORE AND I'VE NEVER COMPREHENDED IT. AS YOU LAST STATED, SELLING POWER IS THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER. IT IS NOT TO THEIR BENEFIT TO HAVE OUTAGES. (See the reference to SAIDI and CAIDI below).
QUOTE: Sorry all I can think of when I hear black-out is Ken Lay and his "Dark Star" plot that he got away with bilking almost billions of dollars from California. "Supply and demand you now" meanwhile he is purposefully shutting down plants to drive rates through the roof. Doing the rolling black-out thing to drive up the fear.
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE. "DEREGULATION" IS THE BIGGEST RIP-OFF OF THE AMERICAN CONSUMER IN THE LAST 50 YEARS. ANY GOOD BUSINESS MAN WILL TELL YOU THAT TO SUCCEED, YOU ELIMINATE THE MIDDLE MAN. ALL DE-REGULATION DID WAS CREATE A MIDDLE MAN. GUESS WHO PICKED UP THE TAB?
QUOTE (sort of): for the most part it is not about lack of fund as to why the 'infrastructure' is not being built. Pushing the question of who is going to get emminant domain to build a nuke plant in your backyard, and a heathy tax break for doing it.
HALF RIGHT. AS I NOTED, IN TEXAS, THE LIMITATION IS IN TRANSMISSION, NOT GENERATION. EVERYBODY WANTS POWER-NOBODY WANTS IT IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD. (Your backyard is great, but not mine).
THAT'S HOW CALIFORNIA SCREWED THEMSELVES. THEY ALL LIKE THEIR AC....AS LONG AS THE GENERATING PLANTS AREN'T NEXT DOOR. AND YOU CAN'T BUILD ONE IF IT SMELLS, LOOKS BAD, ENDANGERS A SNAIL-DARTER, ETC. NOBODY WANTS A TRANSMISSION LINE EITHER. IT TAKES LITERALLY YEARS OF CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS TO GET ONE BUILT (WHICH IS ALMOST AS EXPENSIVE AS THE CONSTRUCTION).
REMEMBER THIS ABOVE ALL ELSE. YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO.
QUOTE: The whimper of 'oh, our hands are tied by the government'
EVER HEAR OF THE EPA? EVER WONDERED WHY WE'RE STILL BURNING COAL GENERATION INSTEAD OF NUECLEAR? EVER BEEN TO A "CCN" (CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY) HEARING TO JUSTIFY A NEW LINE AND HAVE THE WHOLE THING BLOCKED BECAUSE YOU'RE TRYING TO BUILD IT ACROSS A CONGRESSMAN'S RANCH?
e57....Let me apologize to you right off. I'm stating all this "you" stuff rhetorically. I'm not accusing you....you just happened to post a thread that was easy to respond to.
Obviously I'm on a rant here.
I just get tired of our customers complaining about the lights going out, but when it turns out that it is THEIR tree in the line doing it, then they sue us for cutting it. They insist we build infrastructure, but fight us tooth and nail when we do it.
Have you ever heard of SAIDI and CAIDI figures? These are indices that indicate frequency and duration of outages. If a utility lets them get below par, it can be fined (substatially so in some cases). And yet we still get accused of "willfully" creating outages.
.... my wife has noticed me beating the keyboard like a circus monkey.
She's bring me a Red Stripe!
All is well.........
