Where, on this whole fucking planet, has a grid on which all the dangerous fossil fuel plants have been shut, because there been so much electricity from the vast stretches of industrialized former wilderness associated with so called "renewable energy?"
Here is a story from early 2017 where CA was producing toooo much solar...
On 14 days during March, Arizona utilities got a gift from California: free solar power.
Well, actually better than free. California produced so much solar power on those days that it paid Arizona to take excess electricity its residents weren’t using to avoid overloading its own power lines.
It happened on eight days in January and nine in February as well. All told, those transactions helped save Arizona electricity customers millions of dollars this year, though grid operators declined to say exactly how much. And California also has paid other states to take power.
The number of days that California dumped its unused solar electricity would have been even higher if the state hadn’t ordered some solar plants to reduce production — even as natural gas power plants, which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, continued generating electricity.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-electricity-solar/
Doesn't make sense that you would pay other states to take your excess and still have natgas plants running...
Then there's this in Texas...
In Texas, many energy companies offer plans that include free nights and/or weekends. These plans charge a higher electricity rate during the day and customers pay nothing for energy used during nights and weekends. Although these plans may seem like a good option, there are many factors to consider before selecting a free night and weekend energy plan.
How do you think they are able to do this? Excess production by wind farms at night is my bet.
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