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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Yes Vermont Yankee The Local Grid: Pictures at the Edge


Yes Vermont Yankee

The Local Grid: Pictures at the Edge


On a recent cold morning, the New England grid had 243 MW excess capacity with 20,000 MW projected demand. (A 1% safety margin!))  In this post, Meredith Angwin shares screen shots from the grid operator website. These are  "Pictures at the Edge (of reliability)." Oh yeah, prices also soared past $230 MWh.

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