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Excess Wind Power = Free Nighttime Electricity

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by iplug, Nov 8, 2015.

  1. iplug

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    wow, pretty sweet! how did such a backward state become so progressive? then again, i'm not sure i want to be disconnected from the national grid.
     
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    I was reading comments from the former Exelon CEO saying how much wind power is hurting nuclear due to causing the night-time power to be such low returns. Thus (some) utilities are very anti-wind including Exelon and I suspect my utility also. Those ulitities much prefer solar, which allows does not interfere as much with the baseload plants at night.
     
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