{"id":53627,"date":"2020-06-12T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53627"},"modified":"2020-06-12T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:58:50","slug":"building-a-national-super-grid-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53627","title":{"rendered":"Building a national super grid in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2020\/building-a-national-grid-in-america\/\">Building a national super grid in America<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/energyskeptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/national-grid.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is national-grid.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Preface<\/strong>. Renewables are not evenly distributed.&nbsp; Just 10 states have 80% of hydropower (Homeland Security 2011), 10 states produce 75% of wind power (EIA 2017), and 10 states produce 79% of solar power (CE 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a national grid, instead of having to curtail power so the grid isn\u2019t overwhelmed, the power could be sent places needing electricity, especially entire South East, which has very little commercial-scale wind year round (Friedemann 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there is no national grid in sight (St John 2020) for many reasons listed below \u2014 the extremely high cost, the chance that this would actually make the grid more unstable and lead to a national blackout, NIMBYism at every level, and bureaucracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A national supergrid is seen as essential for integrating renewable power into the electric grid, since many regions of the US have limited renewable power options and a very large grid is needed to keep it in balance, since the wind isn\u2019t blowing and the sun isn\u2019t shining everywhere at once, nor do vast regions have hydropower, geothermal, and other renewable power at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just as many natural gas and oil deposits are stranded and unexploited because the cost to build pipelines to them is too high, many renewable resources are unable to generate enough power to justify building transmission lines to them, or they\u2019re too far from cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If America tried to balance intermittent power over a wide area like Denmark and construct a national grid, there is the potential for a national blackout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although large regions can increase stability, this isn\u2019t always true, since operators can\u2019t see adjoining systems well enough to detect impending extreme events and take countermeasures quickly (CEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Size doesn\u2019t always increase reliability because it provides multiple paths for local disturbances to propagate, which can lead to complex chains of cascading failures (Morgan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a national super grid in America Preface. Renewables are not evenly distributed.&nbsp; Just 10 states have 80% of hydropower (Homeland Security 2011), 10 states produce 75% of wind power (EIA 2017), and 10 states produce 79% of solar power (CE 2020). With a national grid, instead of having to curtail power so the grid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11836,1574,29871],"class_list":["post-53627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-power-grid","tag-supergrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53628,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53627\/revisions\/53628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}