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| Simple question.. who pays for the backup power source when renewables go down.. wind and solar?
How should these costs be allocated?
In Texas wind was 28%.. far exceeding the safety margin in the system.
What was built to instantly cover any shortfall?
Presumably it was suppose to be Natural Gas.. well that failed also.
Natty gas spiked to $600/mcf.. who should pay for that expense?
Ratepayers.. some who have damaged homes and businesses?
Other users of natural gas such as farmers who buy nitrogen fertilizer? UAN up $100 so far..
Utilities and municipalities such as Winfield Ks who burned through $10 million in just 6 days.. vs a budget of $1.5 million for the entire year?
https://www.kansas.com/news/state/article249377140.html
“ Ordinarily, the city of Winfield spends about $1.5 million a year on natural gas for customers of its public utility department. During the brutal cold spell a week ago, Winfield had to buy $10 million worth of gas in six days.
“It’s incredible,” said City Manager Taggart Wall. “It’s devastating financial impacts to our customers. A normal bill would be in the $100 range, just natural gas. We’re estimating $2,500 for this event, for one month, if we were just to straight pass that on.”
Winfield is one of dozens of municipal utilities with thousands of customers spread across Kansas, all of which are facing similar dire straits.
“Our first and foremost (obligation) was to have gas continue to flow during these unprecedented temperatures,” Collins said. “So they were successful there and now we’re strategizing how to meet the (financial) obligation.”
Two Sedgwick County cities, Cheney and Kechi, have municipal gas systems and both are on the ropes.
Usually, they’d pay about $3 for the standard measure of 1 million British Thermal Units of gas. Their prices during the cold spell peaked at $622, more than 200 times the price just a couple of weeks ago, officials in the two cities said.
In Cheney, “We’re faced with sending out utility bills that we fear that the residents and the businesses won’t be able to pay,” said City Administrator Danielle Young. “But at the same time we’re being faced with a bill to pay as well to the gas supplier.
“Over the weekend, it was everything we could do to keep the gas supply on to our residents. Now that’s shifted to the gas supply is secured, what’s the financial impact of this and how are we going to handle it?”
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These are going to be expensive bills.. who is responsible for them?
Do the failed wind energy providers owe any responsibility for their failure..???
https://energytalkingpoints.com/texas-electricity-crisis/
Edited by JonSCKs 2/24/2021 08:52
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