From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Citizen K
Yet another margin alert:
How can “extreme temperatures” reduce the “availability of some generation”?
Extreme heat or?
Yet Another Electricity Margin Alert
7 Comments
July 10, 2026 10:10 pm
The local airport KMWC in North Western Milwaukee County has been showing calm weather day and night for the last two weeks or so. As far as I know, that’s unusual.
July 10, 2026 10:12 pm
Anyone who thinks that is a good idea to replace compact power generators that work at large scale and consistently 24/7/365 and at ~90% productivity with technologies that are dilute, unreliable, widely distributed and working intermittently at a combined measured productivity ~18% or less, (actually down to ~15% across Europe in 2025) must be in error or malign.
The low productivity of Weather-Dependent “Renewables” means that their installations have to be about 5-6 times larger just to contribute the same amount power to the Grid. At whatever scale they are installed, they are still unreliable. If the installation costs of “Renewables” were equivalent, (they are in fact much higher when fully accounted including subsidies, Grid connections and other accounting fixes), their power costs more than conventional gas, coal and even nuclear technologies.
https://edmhdotme.wpcomstaging.com/a-few-graphs-say-it-all-for-renewables/
July 10, 2026 10:17 pm
“How can “extreme temperatures” reduce the “availability of some generation”?”
In the June heat wave, three French nuclear ractors closed down completely, and others ran on reduced power. Similar in July.
