Comments on: Guess Which State Cuts Peak Fossil Fuel Use 33%!

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:21:34 +0000

Increasing off-peak does not matter, it is not as carbon intensive. Many states (Maine, Texas, Ontario in Canada) are finding that wind power goes begging for takers at night. Sometimes it has to be given away free, because no one is around to use it. Oklahoma is just starting to build wind power, and moving to night use makes a lot of sense.

By: Ming

Ming — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:53:11 +0000

but they didn’t say how much increase in off-peak because of this.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:18:06 +0000

Yes, I had seen the typo, when I left out the word peak. My thinking is, that a 33% drop in peak use (depending on how long that is – in California that is noon – 6 weekdays – so it might be a fair percentage of total use) and in a coal state – would result in at least the 8% drop in total greenhouse gases that Europe has achieved.

By: Bob Wallace

Bob Wallace — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:49:59 +0000

“A 33 percent drop in energy use is easily the equivalent of the Kyoto-Accord levels of greenhouse gas reductions that European nations”

It doesn’t seem that there was a 33% drop in energy use but a 33% drop in peak energy use due mainly to load shifting. (Not that peak reduction isn’t important as moving demand to off-peak hours means more market for additional wind generation.)

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