Posted by MarkB_MI on April 14, 2021 at 01:30:22 from (174.245.17.66):
In Reply to: Electric_pick-ups posted by sourgum on April 13, 2021 at 20:29:32:
Those ten thousand Hummers are a drop in the bucket compared to the generating capacity that will be required to support an all-EV vehicle fleet. But don't shed too many tears over your beloved coal plants; they're being replaced by gas turbine plants, which are not only cleaner and cheaper to operate, but are also a lot better at producing peak power than coal plants. And of course there's a lot of renewable power coming on line. There might be more nuclear capacity in the future, too, but it takes something like twenty years to plan and build a nuke plant.
The Texas power fiasco had nothing to do with EV demand or even insufficient generating capacity. It was the direct result of non-regulation by Texas' purported power grid regulators. They knew from past experience that the state's power generation plants couldn't handle winter weather, but they did nothing to make companies in the state address the issue. A totally predictable and preventable problem, ignored in a totally Texan fashion. Why didn't the rest of the country have an issue? Well, for one thing the interstate power grids come under federal regulation, while Texas is able to skirt the feds by cutting itself off from the rest of the country. Too bad, if Texas was on the national grid they could have drawn power from states that know how to generate power in the winter.
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