Thu
Jan 25 2007
06:06 pm
By: R. Neal
California has banned the purchase of electricity from coal-fired power plants.
According to the article, there are practically no coal-fired power plants in California but they get up to 20% of their electricity from coal-fired plants in other Western states.
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Does anyone know the makeup
Does anyone know the makeup of California's energy plants? I'm curious what energy sources they're using for electricity.
www.lesjones.com
Might be...
Does anyone know the makeup of California's energy plants? I'm curious what energy sources they're using for electricity.
Squirrel wheel.
Anyone think the law of unintended consequences will kick in this summer? California thought Enron was a good idea.
There is a tremendous amount
There is a tremendous amount of energy in their mudslides, earthquakes, and wildfires if they can just figure out how to tap it.
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California thought Enron was
California thought Enron was a good idea.
Actually, California thought a deregulated free market in electricity was a good idea. Enron thought it was another great opportunity for white-collar theft.
http://www.energy.ca.gov/elec
(link...)
Coal 20.1%
Large Hydro 17.0%
Natural Gas 37.7%
Nuclear 14.5%
Renewables 10.7%
They could probably reach
They could probably reach much of that 20% through efficiency gains.
The cheapest megawatt is the megawatt not produced.
There's even a theoretical market solution that's been in the agitprop for some time...
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Thanks, Bubba
That's why I say you're the new Google. :-)
So California gets 20% of its power from coal? No way they're planning on replacing 20% of their power. Surely not all of that 20% is affected by this decision.
Andy: you say link whore like it's a bad thing.
www.lesjones.com
L'il ol' me? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
You make an ass of u and mption.
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Hmm, 17% from hydro. TVA
Hmm, 17% from hydro.
TVA gets only about 10% from hydro. Imagine that.
I thought it was more like
I thought it was more like 6%. And their "green" (renewable) output is less than 1% (i.e. an unmeasurable rounding error.)
Maybe so, I was just going
Maybe so, I was just going from memory. Last I remember it was 70,20,10 and <1 (coal,nuclear,hydro and renewable).
So was I (going from
So was I (going from memory). I guess it fluctuates with the rain, though.
OK, just checked. You are correct:
(link...)
Fossil fuel plants produced about 62 percent of TVA’s total generation in fiscal year 2005.
Nuclear power produced about 28 percent of TVA’s generation, and hydropower produced 10 percent.
TVA’s combustion turbines and renewable energy program, Green Power Switch, also contributed to TVA’s generation mix.
Forget coal, looks like they
Forget coal, looks like they need a substitute for water:
Heavywater Cal
Unless I'm misunderestimating, they're allowing 20% and they've reached that, so no more coal/no less = no new coal. (?) (It's hard to interpret from the article--It seems to depend on whether it's cleaner or dirtier-produced.)
[EDIT: NPR's report today implied that some of the existing coal plant providers will either have to clean up to remain in the supply line or they'll be replaced by cleaner plants (but still outside Cal.). That is all.]
That's amazing! Guessing that's 2-10 times better than the rest of the country, though they do have less severe HVAC needs.
Negawatts. Last week's New Yorker had an article about Armory Lovins, who coined the term. Unfortunately the article doesn't seem to be online.
Factchecker
So you're saying it's actually a cap. That makes more sense than what the linked article implied.
www.lesjones.com
Les
I don't think the new law is a cap. It just puts limits on how dirty a coal plant selling power to the state can be.
From the wording of this as the "greenhouse gas emissions performace standard," I think the utility regulators just adopted a bill that Ahnault signed in September, which according to the San Diego Union-Tribune (can't copy text and you have to answer a question to enter, so they don't get a link), states that investor-owned utilites cannot enter into or renew long-term contracts with electricity producers that emit more CO2 than modern natural gas plants (however much that is).
Excerpt:
So, presumably some plants will upgrade, others will lose their contracts to cleaner plants. Maybe non-coal or negawatts will be take up some slack.