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Countries With the Most Wind and Solar Have 10 Times Fewer Outages Than America

In the weeks after Energy Secretary Rick Perry kicked off a

60-day study examining the impact of wind and solar on fossil baseload power plants --

hinting that he might use DOE authority to halt state renewable energy targets --

an army of researchers, grid experts and renewable energy professionals showed up at his doorstep.

They were armed with a deep body of research (including a report from a prominent anti-subsidy libertarian think tank) and real-world experience (including from Perry's home state of Texas) showing that variable renewables aren't the threat to grid reliability that the Energy Secretary implies.

The latest to weigh in: David Hochschild of the California Energy Commission and David Olsen of the California Independent System Operator Board of Governors.

The two prominent energy experts penned an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, calling

DOE assumptions about grid reliability "nonsense."

"In California, which has installed more clean energy than any other state, there have been no threats to the reliability of the electric grid caused by renewables.

Instead, the three biggest threats to our grid over the last 20 years came from market manipulation (Enron et al., during the 2001 energy crisis), a nuclear plant failure (San Onofre, 2012), and the largest natural gas leak in history (Aliso Canyon gas storage facility, 2015).

Rather than create these emergencies, renewable energy was part of the solution and continued to operate reliably and prevented these events from becoming worse," wrote Hochschild and Olsen.

They also look at grid reliability in other countries. Denmark and Germany, which host some of the highest levels of non-hydro renewables in the world, have 10 times fewer minutes of outages each year.

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The graph below comes from Dan Shugar, CEO of NEXTracker, who compiled outage data sets back in April.




Shugar posted a response to Perry's assumptions about solar and wind causing grid reliability problems: "Sorry, Secretary Perry, the facts don’t support that."

"We analyzed how the grid reliability, as measured by 'customer outage minutes per year' of countries with the highest renewable penetration (Denmark, Germany) compare with the USA.

The result?

Germany and Denmark have two to four times the renewables of the USA, but have much more reliable power -- in fact, only 10% of the outages that U.S. customers do," wrote Shugar.

the presence of very high amounts of renewable energy in European countries -- made possible with sophisticated grid management techniques -- does not itself make the grid less reliable.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/artic...ntech+Media%29

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Rick Perry’s plan to kill funding for wind and solar power

The Department of Energy has ordered a staff report to show renewable energy harms the electric grid

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is cooking up a case to stifle further federal support of renewable wind and solar energy. He’s ordered a dubiously sourced staff study that is aimed to

paint renewables as an unreliable source for the nation’s electric grid.

spearheaded by Energy Department political appointee

Travis Fisher, who’s associated with a Washington policy group that opposes almost any government aid for renewable energy.

Fisher wrote a 2015 report for the Ins ute for Energy Research that called

clean energy policies “the single greatest emerging threat” to the nation’s electric power grid, and a greater threat to electric reliability than cyber attacks, terrorism or extreme weather.

The Ins ute for Energy Research and its advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance, has been the “influential force in shaping Donald Trump’s plans to dismantle Obama administration climate initiatives,’’

Headed by

Thomas Pyle, a former director of federal affairs for Koch Industries, IER has already delivered its fossil fuel industry wish list to the Trump administration.

http://www.salon.com/2017/06/18/rick...d-solar-power/

So any of you people thinking about installing solar, expect red/slave state solar incentives (if any) and ALL Federal incentives will be terminated ASAP.

DoE message supporting BigCarbon: solar and wind energy is BAD for the grid and must be stopped. The grid is already badly suffering from under investment, private and govt.

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Energy chief: Carbon dioxide not prime driver of warming

Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Monday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus but in line with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Perry's view is contrary to mainstream climate science, including analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The EPA under President Donald Trump recently removed a web page that declared "carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change."

Taking down the web page came after EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, appearing on "Squawk Box" in March, said

"there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact" of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases on the planet.

"So, no, I would not agree that (carbon dioxide) is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see," Pruitt said.

"This idea that science is just absolutely settled and if you don't believe it's settled then you're somehow another Neanderthal, that is so inappropriate from my perspective," he said.

Being a skeptic about climate change issues is "quite all right," Perry added, saying skepticism is

a sign of being a "wise, intellectually engaged person."

The Trump administration has also moved to roll back or delay numerous rules approved by the Obama administration to cut pollution from mining operations, oil and gas wells and coal-fired power plants.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-06-ener...ide-prime.html