Originally Posted By: turtlevette
You want to charge full transmission and distribution costs for sending power one address away?
Did I SAY that ?
No.
I said that it was unfair for the homeowner to get PAID as though they were supplying all of that infrastructure (i.e. net metering, they get the same as the sum total of the grid leading up to their house.
I used the extension lead over the fence analogy to demonstrate my point.
Give them the wholesale price, plus their renewable certificates would be my fair assessment.
Originally Posted By: turtlevette
All generators have governors and provide their share of frequency control.
Which these solar (and wind) do NOT provide...they harvest and put energy into the grid, not ancillary services and frequency control...you KNOW that.
As they displace traditional generation, these services get lumbered on fewer and fewer machines that have these governors that you speak of.
BTW, new CCGTs and others coming in have governors that do not respond to frequency, they simply provide power as well (and VARs), but no frequency response inherently until given an up command from system control, and the $$$ that come with it.
Originally Posted By: turtlevette
Whether it has to do with your job security or not you always seem to shun anything new, progressive, different than what's in your comfort zone, or just about anything different from what's been done in the past.
I shun stupid stuff when it's pushed with an agenda rather than science and logic.
You may see that as "not progressive", but progressive should be based on something factual... I know that you deal mostly in what "feels" like it should be right, no matter how wrong it is in fact....like Ethanol produces NO CO when burned in an engine...someone is into the coolaid, and that's NOT progressive, it's sheeple.
Originally Posted By: turtlevette
It's disconcerting for me to see this from an intelligent person.
It's disconcerting seeing you have to manufacture my position so that you can strawman argue it away.