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via Texas Commercial Electricity by admin on 5/29/12
A new study suggests Texas may be having to deal with with power shortages for the next 10 years or so (source: The Statesman) . These power shortages would happen during peak demand periods each year. So for instance, on a very hot summer or very cold winter you can expect that would be the time when everybody's power goes out.
This worse case scenario occurs because too many people are demanding electricity at the same time. Combine this increase in demand from an expanding population and economy in Texas with EPA actions preventing coal fired power plants from being built. It isn't that Texas wants to pollute the environment, kill the elderly and poison small children.
The fact of the matter is that new coal technology allows for clean burning cheap coal to meet demand for electricity and still let everyone have affordable electricity.
It will always sound great to protect the elderly and the children and like you I want to do this as well but when the elderly and children are used in propaganda by green activists to the eventual hardship of every Texas power consumer someone needs to say something.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has hired an outside consultant that will be delivering a report on June 1 on how Texas can encourage the construction of new power plants.
Right now wholesale electricity prices are too low to attract investors in new electricity generation plants and you have the EPA to contend with if you mention the word, coal.
Remember at one time TXU was planning to create at least 11 new state of the art coal fired power plants and now look at the situation?
For now Texas must work to get more commercial and industrial customers to agree to interrupt their electricity usage during peak demand times in exchange for payment.
A noteworthy aspect to getting businesses to automate electricity curtailment is that in the process they sometimes create complete backup generation systems that can produce onsite electricity through natural gas and remain completely off the grid long term.
Hopefully we will see more off the grid electricity systems that are built for these individual facilities alleviating Texas electricity demand troubles.
You can learn more about commercial distributed generation systems and implementation in Texas by watching the video below.
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